Thursday, March 6, 2014
Slipperiest Atheist Ever?
In an article which is part of series for the "Stone" portion of the NYT, Gary Gutting interviews Atheist Louise Antony. Early on Gutting tries to get Antony to give the reasons that she is so positive that there is no diety. For your own amusement you should read her ongoing obfuscations, which range from divergence to the philosophy of reasons, sliding into Catholic reasons and then into why she ought to give reasons when asked, and dodging on and on. But never does she answer the question. I wonder why?
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Stan,
That Atheist has very bizarre reasoning. Does Louise know who Thomas Aquinas is? She has seriously misplaced confidence in her assertions. How does she know that there is no God?. Too blinded as a materialist. Human suffering is not satisfactory as an explanation...in fact some say that it can be evidence of the supernatural.
"I think many arguments for the existence of a God depend on the insufficiencies of human cognition. "
-How can she be so confident of her Atheism when she says this? She admits human knowledge is ongoing and we do not know specific things for certain. If human knowledge is ongoing, and our minds are imperfect, and our knowledge of the world is incomplete..how can she be 100% certain of her belief though this train of reasoning? This paragraph below is telling...
"That’s not to say that I think everything is within the scope of human knowledge. Surely there are things not dreamt of in our philosophy, not to mention in our science – but that fact is not a reason to believe in supernatural beings."
-Such inconsistent philosophy from a professional philosopher...
I noticed at the bottom of the article that Gary has interviewed Platinga last month.Excellent interview.He concludes that materialism and evolution contradict one another.
Blacksmith,
I once asked Massimo Pigliucci (in a comment box) how he could avoid arguments which were either infinite regressions or circular, given that there are no absolutes to ground the premises. That comment was never published.
I take that sort of response to be a knowing and tacit admission to intellectual dishonesty.
When these folks are asked for the rational support for their worldview or philosophy or rejectionism or Atheism, they cannot answer. But that cognitive dissonance only motivates a desire to cover-up, not a desire to adjust their mental process to be congruent with actual disciplined logic.
Antony could be the poster girl for Atheist Dodge Ball.
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