Darwins Greatest Hits
Questions, a compilation
updated
Craig lecture. youtube.com/watch?v=igLh7cRgb7A
Dooby's politics discord where Darth Dawkins currently hangs out: discord.gg/politics
Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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I am no longer confident in Cudworth's objection because of Schroeder's paper on Cudworth and normative explanations.
my original critique of IP: youtube.com/watch?v=VptVYd7zENs
the hangout IP was in: youtu.be/hgVIIdDHylY?t=1858
youtube.com/watch?v=eFMZF0ygvH8
youtube.com/watch?v=zjkgD4w9w1k
youtube.com/watch?v=90Ah3kRnI2U
original: youtube.com/watch?v=QS47v1j29ec
originals:
youtube.com/watch?v=IiZosY1JqEg
youtube.com/watch?v=wfTYFl-Xl_Q
originals: youtube.com/watch?v=Wfm8pmlu428
youtube.com/watch?v=JrY1HMtqbKY
youtube.com/watch?v=FQNR4iKk70o
I made 3 typos... oh well.
youtube.com/watch?v=NkwkOkmTgYw
youtube.com/watch?v=FOdzME42l20
Here are some clarifications that I should have included.
First, DD is thinking that uttering 'Abraham Lincoln is alive' is a contradiction and incoherent, but it's not. To be an incoherent contradiction you would have to say both the proposition P and not P. To say "Abraham Lincoln is alive" is to say something false, but it is not to say both P and not P, so it's not an incoherent contradiction.
Second, I should clarify what metaphysical possibility means. The use of metaphysical possibility that WLC is talking about is in the context of the modal ontological argument. Modality has to do with concepts like necessity and possibility. In that argument God is defined as a necessary being and has the same modal status as mathematics; if God exists it is necessarily true or necessarily false, and the same can be said of any mathematical equation. The equation 1+1=2 is necessarily true and the equation 1+1=3 is necessarily false. I don't want anyone to mistakenly think that it is a contradiction to say that it's metaphysically possible for Abraham Lincoln to be alive and not alive. What is said here is that there's a possible world where he is alive and another possible world where he isn't. We're not saying that he is both alive and dead in the same world at the same time; we're not violating the law of noncontradictoin. By contrast, it would be a contradiction to say it's metaphysically possible for necessary truths like mathematical equations to be both true and false, because we'd be saying that in all worlds 1+1=2 and in all worlds it's not the case that 1+1=2.
DD says that "when the agnostic speaks he will be speaking from a world where God necessarily exists, or from a world where God necessarily does not exist. In either world he is uttering the possibility which is negated from the reality that he is speaking from [since the agnostic is saying both P and not P are possible]." I don't think he is using the 'necessity' in the modal sense I described. As God is normally conceived, in every world God's existence is either necessarily true or necessarily false, just like mathematical equations. So I'm not sure what DD is talking about; saying there is a world where God exists necessarily and God does not exist necessarily would be like saying there is a world where 1+1=2 is necessarily true and another world where it is necessarily false. My guess is that he's making the same mistake as in the Abraham Lincoln case that to say it's possible that God does not exist in a world where God does exist is to say it's possible that the law of noncontradiction doesn't hold. Recall that DD invoked the LNC and LEM to support his case.
I misspelled 'credence'.
youtube.com/watch?v=Q9CpugTxAZA
PineCreek's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCCR23SnRcuAqafV1lH1le5w
Bassa Island Game Loop - Latinesque by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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inspired by youtuber Vidgeo youtube.com/watch?v=bsCQ-VzqJmM
WLC says belief in God is pbb for those that experience him. He also believes that all skeptics will eventually experience God some time in their life.
Now that I think of it, I'm not sure that the ham and eggs example is a good example. I should have used some truths of mathematics instead, such as 2+2=4 being immediately justified, but it can also be inferred from other beliefs, such as the belief that your calculator is reliable.
Gary's response: youtube.com/watch?v=1Dj7t-PXO1E
Midnight in the Graveyard by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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Alex Malpass's blog post: useofreason.wordpress.com/2017/03/21/induction-god-and-begging-the-question
original: youtube.com/watch?v=5695c9rAqM8
Dale Tuggy, Constitution Trinitarianism, An Appraisal http://trinities.org/dale/CT%20preprint%20-%20Tuggy.pdf
Dale Tuggy, The unfinished business of Trinitarian theorizing http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Tuggy-The-unfinished-business-of-Trinitarian-theorizing.pdf
Jeffrey Brower, Michael Rea, Material Constitution and the Trinity https://www3.nd.edu/~mrea/papers/Material%20Constitution%20and%20the%20Trinity.pdf
Jeffrey Brower, Michael Rea, Understanding the Trinity https://muse.jhu.edu/article/177639
Michael Rea, Hylomorphism and Incarnation https://www3.nd.edu/~mrea/papers/Hylomorphism%20and%20Incarnation.pdf
Michael Rea, Polytheism and Christian Belief https://www3.nd.edu/~mrea/papers/Polytheism.pdf
Michael Rea, Relative Identity and the Doctrine of the Trinity https://www3.nd.edu/~mrea/papers/Relative%20Identity%20and%20the%20Doctrine%20of%20the%20Trinity.pdf
Michael Rea, The Trinity https://www3.nd.edu/~mrea/papers/The%20Trinity.pdf
Harriet Baber, Relative Identity Redux http://home.sandiego.edu/~baber/research/RelativeIdentityRedux.pdf
Thomas McCall, Michael Rea, Philosophical and Theological Essays on the Trinity amazon.com/Philosophical-Theological-Essays-Trinity-Thomas/dp/0199216215
William Lane Craig, Does the problem of material consitution illuminate the doctrine of the Trinity? http://www.reasonablefaith.org/does-the-problem-of-material-constitution-illuminate-the-doctrine
J.P. Moreland & William Lane Craig, Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview amazon.com/Philosophical-Foundations-Christian-Worldview-Moreland/dp/0830826947
Trenton Merricks Knowledge and Essays in Honor of Alvin Plantinga amazon.com/Knowledge-Reality-Plantinga-Philosophical-Studies/dp/9048171830
SEP on Trinity https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/trinity/
IEP on Trinity http://www.iep.utm.edu/trinity/
Life of Riley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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DD vs Ozy: youtube.com/watch?v=F1kLC1uTZ-g