pianoforte611 comments on [LINK] Sean Carrol's reflections on his debate with WL Craig on "God and Cosmology" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pianoforte611 27 February 2014 09:16:24PM 0 points [-]

I find myself put off by Craig's use of disagreements and thought experiments in academic disciplines (which are the sign of a healthy field!) as a weapon against them. For example he uses speciesism to attack against non-theistic moral philosophy, instead of using it as a means of talking about what properties are relevant for moral consideration - which was its original purpose. And he uses Hilbert's Hotel to assert that infinities are "paradoxical" - even though they are perfectly logically consistent, and much of modern mathematics is based off of them.

I understand that he is trying to win, he doesn't care about honesty, but that doesn't make it any less off-putting.

Comment author: shminux 27 February 2014 09:40:00PM *  1 point [-]

I wonder if he would agree with