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Article #13732Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: BuddyThunder
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:07
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:07
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rbwinn wrote: > On Jul 7, 3:48�am, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: >> BuddyThunder wrote: >>> rbwinn wrote: >>>> On Jul 6, 12:58 am, BuddyThunder <nos...@paradise.net.nz> wrote: >>>>> rbwinn wrote: >>>> - >>>> Well, look spirit up in the dictionary. �If you do not believe in >>>> spirit, then there is no way to explain it to you. >>> I looked it up and found lots of vague notions of intermediaries between >>> body and soul. That kind of nonsense. >>> So there is no meaningful definition of "spirit" in reality? You made a >>> positive claim about my "spirit", then choosing to define it in terms of >>> itself. A kind of "spirit is spirit, what's wrong with you" argument. >>> I'm none the wiser as to what you're actually referring to. >> The mediaeval understanding of spirit,was essentially what we today >> would call the mind, as distinct and somewhat independent of, the body. >> The concept of the 'objective observer' grew out of this particular >> worldview. Science owes religious philosophy that much, at least.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Spirit could also be called intelligence. Why not simply use "intelligence" then? It's a much less nebulous word. Intelligence is emergent from normal brain-activity (in many animals including humans) and doesn't seem to be supernatural at all.
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