@akramespy: For atheists who've never touched the real depth of theism, try to answer these. #philosophy #fyp #edit #alvinplantinga #god

karol161616 :

1. Things may be possible or impossible simply because of the nature or structure of reality itself, without requiring a divine mind to ground those possibilities. 2. Intentionality (“aboutness”) is indeed difficult to explain, but many philosophers argue that it can emerge from sufficiently complex physical systems, or that intentionality is a fundamental feature of minds rather than evidence for God. 3. Truth having normative authority doesn’t obviously require God either. A naturalist can argue that rational norms arise from what it means to reason successfully or to form beliefs aimed at truth. 4. The idea that individuals possess a necessary identity is itself controversial. Many philosophers reject essentialism altogether or offer purely metaphysical accounts that don’t appeal to God. 5. Human reason being able to discover mathematics and physics may be explained by evolution producing generally reliable cognitive faculties, combined with cultural accumulation and the fact that mathematics is a human abstraction used to model patterns in reality. Simply posing a deep question doesn’t show that “therefore God” is the answer. An argument still has to be made for why theism explains these phenomena better than competing views.

Fico🇻🇦 :

chance bro its chance

Asclepius :

I'm gonna try analysing one of these if that's okay...

✝️🇪🇬📚 :

Bro destroyed atheism

classicalbenji111 :

It’s 13.8 billion years bro

Keg keg keg keg :

The world is made of atoms tho

neptunian :

All of these can be explained

01.3887 :

Plantinga overrated, already responded to by Schellenberg and many others

Nds8671 :

alright

🧌🧌🧌 :

i kept seeing this guy on philosophy tiktok but these look like really interesting questions, should i read any books before reading this man's materiel

𝑨𝒕𝒍𝒂𝒔 :

W pfp

Kipchumba🇰🇪 :

4️⃣ :

jgf6g2 :

Plantinga! 💪

zodjsns :

son

Abdullah_Philosoph :

Idk 🤷‍♂️

rebecca :

1) A thing that cannot exist is not a thing. 2) Physical events are "about" something when they have representational content; representational content is "stored" in information; information is a physical property. Given a system capable of "reading" such information and producing said representational content, that system will produce what the info is about. Really the topic of information and computation is infinitely complex but you get the gist. 3) Truth does not possess authority over our thinking. That is simply false. Many people and many cultures value different things. Moreover, "truth" is itself a historically and linguistically determined notion; different cultures have different meanings for "truth". Even different areas of thinking subscribe to different meanings of truth. The meaning of scientific "truth" (concept-object adequacy) is different from, I dunno, the religious meaning of "truth" (revelation), the poetic meaning etc. If truth had any normative authority is entirely due to circumstances. 4) Who said an individual possesses a NECESSARY identity? Excuse me? For example, an individual organism has no necessary identity: its material parts change constantly, and even its formal properties can change radically (caterpillar → butterfly). Not even genes can provide this necessary identity. In organisms like nematodes or paramecia, genome can change during lifespan. Moreover, any unicellular organisms can mutate during lifetime, and having only one genome, it would effectively lose its gene-identity. Perhaps individual genes might be considered, but due to redundancy and degeneracy, the choice of which genes constitute gene-identity is either arbitrary or circular (those that persist identical...). 5) Human reason can do all these things because of evolved cognitive abilities plus our co-evolution with technology. But other species might discover things too. We just happen to be smarter. SO ANYWAY