tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post3786171776324407144..comments2024-03-04T05:55:35.225-05:00Comments on Vital Remnants: Coyne's Confusion: How a prominent scientific atheist can't agree with himself about metaphysical naturalismMartin Cothranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-32853089864240679852009-07-11T22:51:28.244-04:002009-07-11T22:51:28.244-04:00Cothran failed to recognize that Coyne relies on h...Cothran failed to recognize that Coyne relies on human experience, which is to say, on Hume's argument against miracles.<br /><br />Coyne relies on his empirical evidence and induction to argue that Christian claims are false. However, Coyne pushes his evidence too far--he essentially has to claim omniscience for science as regards certain categories of human experience if he relies on TomHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-70554202451456981872009-07-11T14:43:16.544-04:002009-07-11T14:43:16.544-04:00Truti,
I'm not sure I understand a good part ...Truti,<br /><br />I'm not sure I understand a good part of your post, but in what way is religion a "non-question"?Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-61048431020401699752009-07-11T14:36:58.701-04:002009-07-11T14:36:58.701-04:00Anonymous, your remarks are almost coherent. What...Anonymous, your remarks are almost coherent. What does it matter who chuckles, or who wins Nobel prizes? Al Gore won one; some people think it enhanced his prestige; I think it only harmed the Nobel committee's.<br /><br />How does declaring something a "non-question" make it one?Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-18572282506108862042009-07-11T08:05:35.584-04:002009-07-11T08:05:35.584-04:00Religious questions are non-questions. The only D...Religious questions are non-questions. The only Darwinists are leading lights of the anti-science movement, who believe that there is such a thing as an "ism" in science.<br /><br />While for the more dramatically inclined and the thrill seekers this dialogue may sound like a squabble, Moran, Mano Singham, Myers, Miller, Collins and others wouldn't spare your description of it Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-68183199121691057402009-07-07T12:43:46.139-04:002009-07-07T12:43:46.139-04:00Note that Coyne's idea of proof (a 900' ta...Note that Coyne's idea of proof (a 900' tall Jesus) is manifestly an inappropriate way for a transcendent God to show himself--this goes for Oral Roberts too. This just demonstrates that what Coyne means by God cannot be what theism means.<br /><br />And you missed the majority of biologists' position on religion and science: that science deals with specific kinds of questions that doThomas M. Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07824873424225826685noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-77052878890450512682009-07-07T10:37:45.180-04:002009-07-07T10:37:45.180-04:00> And finally there are the theistic evolutioni...> And finally there are the theistic evolutionists, whose concern is to maintain the intellectual plausibility of their position, which is of course threatened if their views on the subject were to house two irreconcilable positions: that of an active theism and that of a metaphysical naturalism that can permit, at most, only a rudimentary, emasculated Deism. <br /><br />Nice! I could not Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974887002402743628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-81233710150397921822009-07-06T12:46:13.275-04:002009-07-06T12:46:13.275-04:00Stuart,
Don't forget to tell Dan Brown about ...Stuart,<br /><br />Don't forget to tell Dan Brown about this.Martin Cothranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452612266051351726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11542449.post-1245869417031841652009-07-06T11:42:14.092-04:002009-07-06T11:42:14.092-04:00Nice work. Thanks for the time spent in putting th...Nice work. Thanks for the time spent in putting this together.Thesauroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13305052511095551483noreply@blogger.com