Lost marbles (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 00:19 (5505 days ago) @ xeno6696

But I do think that my job sometimes is at least to bring things like this to attention. -Matt; I appreciate your patience with me. Since there are so many philosophers who contradict each other, at least that is my impression, it has always seemed to me that philosophy is really a study of possible truths, with nothing rigid or absolutely proven. 
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 Having not read these authors, I cannot presume that they didn't think all of these things through. However since you have and these questions I raise seem new to you, I would presume to say they haven't. -John Leslie is the retired prof. of philosophy at Gelph U, Canada. Flew is the most famous atheist philosopher of the 20th Century. Surely they an Adler recognize all of these boundries you bring up. 
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> What I find more disappointing is that you'd rather dodge the questions than try to meet them in some way. You think they don't apply to you, but in my estimation, they do. At least, I don't see how they can't. Science doesn't work without the assumptions of naturalism, and at the minimum this challenge must be met. -Frankly, I don't think I am dodging questions. I don't know enough of what you know to fully understand some of your points and objections you raise, and since I didn't see discussion like yours in what I have read, I'm surprised by them. I absolutely believe, as you do, that science is naturalism and methodologic materialism, but not to the point of scientism. It cannot bring in the supernatural, as I have stated before. But it seems you are telling me that my acceptance of 'probability limits' is wrong. Is there no level of improbability that completely rules out chance, such as Dembski's 10^-150th? Or less, Borel's 10^-50th? I have based some of my thinking on that concept. -And finally, Leslie, Adler and Flew see no boundry between this universe and God. I think stating that natural can't be mixed with supernatural is semantics.Is Catholic philosophy so different from secular philosophy, in all aspects? I taught an hour of the philosophy prof's class at Tomball College for several years on the cosmologic argument for God. He never contradicted me.He and I are friends and belong to the same discussion group, mainly with faculty members. I was invited to join after my first book, "Government By Political Spin". 
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> I did a little more reading on Flew and it seems that he takes an extreme deism--quite similar to the "strawman" one that I was beaten with last summer between... you and dhw? Not sure who exactly.-I'm sure dhw. Thanks again for patience.