Friday, February 22, 2013
No,Swinburne!
Swinburne cannot superrate materialism. His theism is not only an argument from ignorance but also from personal incredulity. He cannot envisage that science will find answers, whilst God did it exposes the contempt for rationality. That rationality demands science, not theology, to make for that more abundant life. Religion only offers assuagement through false apologetics and arguments and why, God loves you.
He first should give evidence that God has a mind! The naturalistic argument from physical mind notes that the very idea of a disembodied mind contradicts our conservation- background - of knowledge that we only find minds in brains in bodies. Never do theists give evidence for disembodied mind, so that we materialists do not in turn commit the argument from incredulity but use Lamberth's argument from scientific incredulity, based on that conservation. Some atheists did think that we ought someday to find His physical body should He exist, as the cosmonauts claimed and didn't find it, false assumption.
Swinburne also earns contempt for his observation that the Holocaust urged Jewry to do great deeds! That twaddle rests on the argument from the greater good and the unknown defense that Alvin Plantinga also uses, both reflecting the argument from ignorance.
He also fails to fathom the Ockham. He prattles that why, God is simple, whilst naturalism is complex. No! God requires convoluted, ad hoc assumptions that violently violate the venerated Ockham!
Swinburne, advanced theologian that he is, fails to fathom that theism rests on the arguments from personal incredulity and from ignorance, which underline other arguments.
This is no ad hominem against him: study him for yourself. Study Plantinga also.
And we materialists depend on no scientistic matter, but on the evidence and analysis.
We note that science is not the only method but is the most reliable one, and any others must use evidence, not infirmed intuitions, traditions and faith. The must be rational.
What is your take?
Sunday, February 3, 2013
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