Finally,
nonexistence does not imply non-replacement.
Actually, Corey, God's
nonexistence does not impede the ability of the people of that church to love Lucas and each other and by so doing make everybody's lives better.
Not exact matches
Like other atheists has often said: People
does not seem so troubled about the billions of years of
nonexistence before their birth, but most are very anxious about death and the probable nonexistance after that event.
Hence, only the first interpretation is meaningful, and it can not be used to deduce from the existence of (genuine) moral evil the
nonexistence of benevolent omnipotence, since «whether the free men created by God would always
do what is right would presumably be up to them» (GPE 271).
Thus we
do have a basis for projecting that potentiality into the future as a continuing potentiality for division, despite the
nonexistence of any future occasion, in much the same way that the potentiality is still perceived as pervading the past, despite the actual atomicity of the past world.
@ Moby, If you don't believe in angels based on the evidence or the lack thereof that's fine, but if you're claiming that the
nonexistence of angels to be the absolute truth then you better provide the proof.
The lack of proof for the
nonexistence of a god
does not prove a god exists, any more than a lack of proof for the
nonexistence of a planet somewhere in the universe made entirely of chocolate pudding proves that such a planet exists.
though i find chad's views on the relationship of truth and faith and on the impossibility of god's
nonexistence wildly entertaining, i
do appreciate the civility of his discourse.
Neither
did I say to myself, «I'm tired of dreading
nonexistence — I shall will myself into faith!»
- It
did not initially insist upon their
nonexistence.
we can guess and have faith in the existence or
nonexistence of a god, or we can accept that we don't know and look for the truth from there.
In the first place, present imperceptibility
does not even imply future imperceptibility, let alone imply or illustrate
nonexistence without replacement.
They have no more proof of his
nonexistence than theists
do of its existence.
The differentia
does not reside in the existence or
nonexistence of objectivity but simply in the claims made concerning the extension of applicability.
Secondly, as Hartshorne's principle suggests, even perpetual imperceptibility
does not imply
nonexistence.
But, I agree that proving God's
nonexistence is difficult, but I also agree that that's why you can't ignore the possiblility that He
does exist.
The reason is clear: the discussion about existence as a perfection, as if that were all that is involved,
does not make explicit the far more important point that, in the case of «God,» properly understood,
nonexistence was never a real possibility, a consideration entirely overlooked by those who blithely say that, of course, we all know that no existence can be derived from «mere» ideas.
It might be put as follows: «God
does not exist, but not because some unfortunate accident incompatible with divine existence has brought about God's
nonexistence or prevented God's existence.
Does it get into such a fierce and gnarly twist that it rips, spilling stars, planets, and general - relativity theorists out of the universe and into the cold
nonexistence of hyperspace?
However, what doesn't seem sensible in my experience, is the
nonexistence of encouraging exercise in this system.
Rain is the forecast, so the plan is reading (something I've been
doing a lot of lately thanks to the
nonexistence of good summer tv) in bed during the rain, taking a trip to my tailor (more on that next week), a really long walk post-rain with a friend, and restarting my plan for a possible kitchen makeover.
Both films are post-apocalyptic sci - fi thrillers where the the population of Earth is threatened into
nonexistence in a short amount of time, while the survivors
do what they can in order to keep from suffering the same fate at the hands of those who have gone rabidly insane — the zombies here aren't the slow, lumbering ones we generally associate with the genre either.
Looking behind the words, I realize that the value of the word «peace» is much deeper than I thought, raising this really significant question for humanity: «
Does the
nonexistence of war in a country indicate the existence of peace?»
Willingham and others acknowledge that lack of evidence doesn't constitute definitive proof of
nonexistence.
And, since the sacrament of baptism is said to be the remedy for the «original sin», but renders the baptized subject to heaven or Hell, rather than the «limbo» of the unbaptized, recommit the «original sin» to give up heaven to avoid Hell, and go to «limbo»,
nonexistence, like, supposedly, the animals
do.
That's something we don't have now, and that would give us pdfs we could apply today for much more than navel - gazing about the
nonexistence of sport equipment.
Re: Ryan Maue (# 243), In the same vein as an earlier post (# 202) you made,
does the existence /
nonexistence of the trend depend at all on the definition of «midlatitudes»?
I
did my due diligence in looking through CA statutes looking for such things, but failure to find is obviously not proof of
nonexistence.