Reynold said: "Where do you get the idea that your god is the only "possible" source of logic? Can you show that without him, "logic" could not exist?"
This is true by the impossibility of the contrary, no other worldview can account for universal, abstract, invariant entities.
Cheers,
Sye
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I'm reminded of the scene in Airport (the original one):
[the precocious nerd figures out they're turning around]
Mrs. Schultz: Captain, our son has a question. Schuyler, here's our captain.
Schuyler Schultz: [pointing out the window] Before, Virgo and Leo were right there, sir. Now I'm beginning to see Ursa Minor and Cassiopeia. We MUST be turning around.
Capt. Vernon Demerest: You have a young navigator here! Well, I'll tell you son... Due to a Cetcil wind, Dystor's vectored us into a 360-tarson of slow air traffic. Now we'll maintain this Borden hold until we get the Forta Magnus clearance from Melnics.
Schuyler Schultz: Oh... yes... of course!
Mr. Schultz: What did he mean by that, son?
Schuyler Schultz: Never mind, father, I'll tell you later.
What the hell is a "universal, abstract, invariant entity?"
Is that just fancy talk for aliens? Or (more likely) rambling bullshit.
'no other worldview can account for universal, abstract, invariant entities.'
That's exactly one of our main problems with the whole religion schtick.
William of Occam would like to have a word with this one.
"no other worldview can account for universal, abstract, invariant entities."
Okay, so if you could just submit your evidence that they are universal and invariant for checking...
Wow, great abuse of the language! You must have practiced abuse all by yourself for YEARS! Begging the question by smuggling in the term 'entites' to refer to invariant unviversal phenomena or abstractions is really cute, though intellectually puerile.
Calling the principles of logic 'entities' does not mean that if Logic exists then entities like Angels, Demons and Odin must exist.
Using the term entities in the sense you originally implied it to have, of universal abstract principles and phenomea, then the atheistic worldview points out 'they must have these characteristics because there is no God to stop them from doing so!'
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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