Christians try to explain the utility of logic by positing God created a logical world — and yet, without missing a beat, they'll try to prove God's existence necessary through the pseudo-logic of their ontological arguments. Each type of argument presupposes and rests upon the validity of the other so it is essentially a circular meta-argument:
"We can trust logic because God endowed us with the capacity and we can trust God because His existence and essence are the same and logically irrefutable."
And then, if you do go on to refute their logic they will fall back into mysticism and claim that since God created logic, He necessarily transcends it and so is not bound by anything so quaint as Aristotle's laws of identity and non-contradiction.
Whatever you might say about Christian philosophers, you cannot justly accuse them of stupidity. They've foreseen every objection, every contigency in advance and answered it. If you were to draw a mind-map of all their arguments for God you'd see that they form a closed loop. I wonder what Gödel would think of it all?
Christians try to explain the utility of logic by positing God created a logical world — and yet, without missing a beat, they'll try to prove God's existence necessary through the pseudo-logic of their ontological arguments. Each type of argument presupposes and rests upon the validity of the other so it is essentially a circular meta-argument:
ReplyDelete"We can trust logic because God endowed us with the capacity and we can trust God because His existence and essence are the same and logically irrefutable."
And then, if you do go on to refute their logic they will fall back into mysticism and claim that since God created logic, He necessarily transcends it and so is not bound by anything so quaint as Aristotle's laws of identity and non-contradiction.
Whatever you might say about Christian philosophers, you cannot justly accuse them of stupidity. They've foreseen every objection, every contigency in advance and answered it. If you were to draw a mind-map of all their arguments for God you'd see that they form a closed loop. I wonder what Gödel would think of it all?