The most current philosophical arguments for the existence of God?

[lee_merrill]

@nwrickert

I have never understood what it is supposed mean to say “naturalism is true”. From my perspective, naturalism is not a specific claim or a set of claims – it is more of an attitude.

“Naturalism: the philosophical belief that everything arises from natural properties and causes, and supernatural or spiritual explanations are excluded or discounted.” (Oxford Languages)

So a belief involves believing something is true, which is more than an attitude.

@Roy

was originally ‘thoughts’, but could equally well be ‘parachute’, ‘self-driving car’, ‘ladder’, ‘central heating’, ‘watch’, ‘rain gauge’, and myriad other items for which no-one would hesitate to reject that claim.

But would you take a parachute that was produced solely by non-reasoning processes? The parachute is imbued with function because it was produced by reason.

@Faizal_Ali

Surely Haldane did not think his brain was not made of atoms.

Certainly, and this belief was founded in the validity of reason. He was saying once reason has no rational foundation, all thoughts are questionable.

@RonSewell

If an immaterial mind controls your thoughts, do you have any more reason to trust them?

No, I control my thoughts, my mind functions because it is founded by a supernatural Reason.

@RonSewell

In recent years I have been witness to severe mental decline due to physical disease of the brain. Their thoughts are far from trustworthy. If the mind is not emergent from the brain, I see no reason that the mind should deteriorate just because atoms in the brain are not arranged normally.

I’m sorry for you having had this experience, and I would say that derangement of thought does not prove that unreasoning processes control our thoughts.