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by SeerOfProvo
Fri Jan 01, 2021 11:13 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Certain people can't ever get it right
Replies: 343
Views: 50759

Re: Certain people can't ever get it right

This just sounds really dumb. That is the hazard of quoting just a few paragraphs of a larger and complicated work. A handful of snapshots can be misleading to the person who didn’t choose, line up, and take the shots themselves. The reality is Craig is marshalling arguments originating from the de...
by SeerOfProvo
Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:47 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Certain people can't ever get it right
Replies: 343
Views: 50759

Re: Certain people can't ever get it right

It might not be worth paying attention to this Craig person after all. Are you sure he’s really that dim? I don’t think he is dim at all and consider him a competent philosopher, I just think he is wrong about our ontological commitments in regards to mathematics. I’ll reproduce some snippets from ...
by SeerOfProvo
Tue Dec 29, 2020 11:19 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Certain people can't ever get it right
Replies: 343
Views: 50759

Re: Certain people can't ever get it right

But I'm curious, what was it that stopped you from being allowed to comment on the blog? Your comments were substantial and you even referred to the apologists as "Dr.", as they demand. What happened? My last public comment was on a post about moral relativism and ethical nihilism. For convenience ...
by SeerOfProvo
Mon Dec 28, 2020 10:51 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Certain people can't ever get it right
Replies: 343
Views: 50759

Re: Certain people can't ever get it right

Oh but they must appeal to authority, for that is the basis of Mormonism, authority, whether someone with a Ph.d, or some prophet here or there. Without authority to rely on Mormons assume truth is forever out of their reach. That is another flavor of Kool Aid I no longer have to ingest in order to...
by SeerOfProvo
Mon Dec 28, 2020 7:20 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Certain people can't ever get it right
Replies: 343
Views: 50759

Re: Certain people can't ever get it right

Since Mormonism doesn't square with the position that God created the universe out of nothing, this simply doesn't work. For Mormonism God's creation wasn't a snapping things into existence, but was a taking material that was already sitting around and forming it into something new. And God himself...
by SeerOfProvo
Mon Dec 28, 2020 6:46 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Certain people can't ever get it right
Replies: 343
Views: 50759

Re: Certain people can't ever get it right

The author of that blog has a tendency to simply import philosophical arguments from other religious traditions (namely, orthodox Christianity) wholesale without even casually examining the nuts and bolts of said argument. This has the unfortunate result of many assumptions foreign to the Latter Day...
by SeerOfProvo
Thu Dec 03, 2020 1:11 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Radical Incoherence
Replies: 47
Views: 8611

Re: Radical Incoherence

I found the 'About' page to be more illuminating than the so-called manifesto itself: One of the inspirations for the Latter-day Saint Radical Orthodoxy Manifesto was the Agile Manifesto, which has been incredibly influential in the software development community. The Agile Manifesto wasn’t created ...