> what you are actually trying to say is you have doubts as to whether or not the words of religious texts were written by man or "inspired by God," right?
they might well all be inspired by God, but they can't all be the literal truth about God on pain of contradiction. When one religious text says 'God is x' and another religious text says 'God is not x' then how do we decide whether God is x or not? How do we decide which religious text is telling us the truth about God? What do we do when we find contradictions within one book or within the old and new testament?
I don't really have trouble with the notion that they might well all be *inspired* by God. But on that interpretation... We can't rely on religious texts to tell us literal truths about either God's nature or the natural world.
>> Even you are willing to debate the existance of God without any knowledge of Him whatsoever (in this instance, the Judeo-Christian God).
>> How can one possibly take your reasoning serious now that it is known your knowledge is so one-sided, at best, since you do not even know about the God to which you are attributing so much contradiction to?
>Please don't jump to conclusions about me.
ie please don't assume that I have 'no knowledge of Him whatsoever' and that my 'knowledge is so one-sided'...
> THEN DO NOT DO THE SAME TO ME. At least mine was just a misinterpretation because of how you chose to express yourself. Can you say the same about your conclusions about me?
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>>> He is the one who created logic, mathematics, etc. (We, as humans are only discovering this "pure" language, not creating it!).
>>So you are a Platonist rather than a constructionist about mathematical objects... Mathematicians tend to be Platonists about numbers
> THEN DO NOT DO THE SAME TO ME. At least mine was just a misinterpretation because of how you chose to express yourself. Can you say the same about your conclusions about me?
WTF???????
How about looking up constructivism and Platonism and seeing for yourself what view yours sounds like on the basis of what you said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_mathematics