the ignostic and Occam arguments

naturalist · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: the ignostic and Occam arguments

[u] With the ignostic argument we show that God is the mere tautology that God wills what He wills and that God did it is merely the magic of let there be light.God" hides our ignorance behind a theologcial fig leaf," to quote Keith Parsons and "Occult power wielded by a transcendent power in an inscrutable way for unfathomable reasons does not seem to be any sort of a real explanation." The final cause that is nature suffices without the pseudo-explanation of the God cause. However, to grant meaning to the term , we find that Occam's razor shows no use of it anyway as it would require ad hoc explanations for it that causalism does not.Thus, we find miralcles natural if not hoaxes.Natural selection accounts for changes on its own in life forms. Thus, we have the ignostic and Occam arugments as the bsis of atheology.The atheist Rabbi Sherwin Wine coined the term ignosticism, which A.J. Ayers used to discredit both theism and atheism, but I find it a component of strong atheism.

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