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Old 08-09-2007, 04:14 PM   #64 (permalink)
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Thumbs up the Ockham

Sky Pappy, the ground of being, makes assumptions that are already shown to be faulty anyway. There can be no first cause and natural selection is the designer. So, those two false assumptions cause Him to be redundant.Do we use angels in addition to the laws of motion, Thor in addition to what makes weather, demons in addition to the causes of mental illness and gremlins as causes of mechanical problems.The Ockham here brings forth the presumption of naturalism that natural causes are the sufficent, necessary, primary and efficient causes. As with miracles, it is not question begging to notice this as it requires evidence to overcome this presumption. Add to that the ignostic argument, one notes that there is probaly no god as basic atheology and in accordance with the agnostic method.

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