The New God Argument by Lincoln Cannon argues that superhumanity probably created our world. The argument is as follows: Faith Assumption F1. Humanity will not become extinct before evolving into superhumanity (assumption) https://new-god-argument.com/ Compassion Argument CO1. EITHER humanity probably will become extinct before evolving into superhumanityOR superhumanity probably would not have more decentralized power than […]
Cartoons
How confident are we that our universe wasn’t created? How confident are we that time began at the Big Bang?
Pick your fairy-tale
Columnist David Quinn today commented on Twitter: Pick your ‘fairy-tale: God created everything, or nothing made everything. https://twitter.com/DavQuinn/status/1387015353323114497?s=20 David makes a good point that whatever your explanation is for all that exists, it must appeal to something that others consider a fairy-tale. While the list above may initially seem to exhaust all options, one reply […]
Types of harm
When we say that an action “does harm” or “is wrong”, what do we mean? Subject Causes harm to self Causes harm to others Causes harm to the environment Causes harm to the culture/process Direct Causes physical harm Causes emotional harm Causes spiritual harm Causes sexual harm Causes psychological harm Indirect Dehumanises the human Removes […]
Lectures on Faith
The Lectures on Faith is a series of seven lectures published in 1835 as part of the Doctrine and Covenants and remained until 1921. Bruce R. McConkie said of the Lectures on Faith: “In my judgment, it is the most comprehensive, inspired utterance that now exists in the English language—that exists in one place defining, […]
24 Valid Syllogisms
Why not? Barbara AAA – All women are daughters of God. All relief society presidents are women. Therefore all relief society presidents are daughters of God. Barbari AAI – All women are daughters of God. All relief society presidents are women. Therefore some relief society presidents are daughters of God. Darii AII – All relief […]
Cosmological Argument
The cosmological argument forms part of natural theology and aims to demonstrate the existence of God by appealing to a “first cause”. In order to introduce the cosmological argument, both of the following cannot be true: Every effect has a cause An infinite chain of causes is impossible It is widely believed that an infinite […]
Faith and Justification
Justification is the support that is given to a proposition or claim. Usually something is justified if we can support the claim with some kind of good evidence. For example, justification that the moon exists is that you can see it with your eyes. Justification that your eyes are working correctly now is that they […]
Evaluating Arguments
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. – Ludwig Wittgenstein An argument is a reason or set of reasons given in support of a conclusion. It need not be contentious and is distinct from an argument in the sense of an aggressive exchange. […]
Stylometrics
Introduction In 1980 three statisticians at Brigham Young University “examined the frequencies of noncontextual words in a precedent-setting analysis” of the Book of Mormon. Among the findings, it was concluded that: “Text clusters of major Book of Mormon authors and Joseph Smith. Linear discriminant analysis indicates that the writing styles of the major Book of […]