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Comment author: Incorrect 27 December 2011 03:45:07AM *  2 points [-]

I tried to look for a religious debate elsewhere in this thread but could not find any except the tangential discussion of schizophrenia.

However, I'm getting a little sick of religious debate since the last few days of participating in it.

Then please feel free to ignore this comment. On the other hand, if you ever feel like responding then by all means do.

A lack of response to this comment should not be considered evidence that AspiringKnitter could not have brilliantly responded.

What is the primary reason you believe in God and what is the nature of this reason?

By nature of the reason, I mean something like these:

  • inductive inference: you believe adding a description of whatever you understand of God leads to a simpler explanation of the universe without losing any predictive power

  • intuitive inductive inference: you believe in god because of intuition. you also believe that there is an underlying argument using inductive inference, you just don't know what it is

  • intuitive metaphysical: you believe in god because of intuition. you believe there is some other justification this intuition works

Comment author: AspiringKnitter 27 December 2011 04:04:39AM 1 point [-]

I tried to look for a religious debate elsewhere in this thread but could not find any except the tangential discussion of schizophrenia.

It's weird, but I can't seem to find everything on the thread from the main post no matter how many of the "show more comments" links I click. Or maybe it's just easy to get lost.

What is the primary reason you believe in God and what is the nature of this reason?

None of the above, and this is going to end up on exactly (I do mean exactly) the same path as the last one within three posts if it continues. Not interested now, maybe some other time. Thanks. :)

Comment author: Emile 27 December 2011 10:45:22AM 0 points [-]

I tried to look for a religious debate elsewhere in this thread but could not find any except the tangential discussion of schizophrenia.

See here.