tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post1458347405225884252..comments2024-03-28T13:23:50.623-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: The simple religious perception argument against naturalismAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-49678414564909682832013-08-09T16:17:03.404-05:002013-08-09T16:17:03.404-05:00we = human beings.
That we humans have a natural ...we = human beings.<br /><br />That we humans have a natural faculty of religious perception does not mean that everyone has religious perceptions.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-16802304186437946292013-08-01T18:17:42.173-05:002013-08-01T18:17:42.173-05:00Concerning premise 3, how does this fit in with th...Concerning premise 3, how does this fit in with the fact that atheists have what they call religious experiences relating to nature?Ryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548462007843515548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-47247273853370293872013-08-01T09:10:41.609-05:002013-08-01T09:10:41.609-05:00It's an odd hypothesis that there are natural ...It's an odd hypothesis that there are natural non-active faculties. (Black hole vicinity detectors? Neutrino detectors?) But one can accommodate this by restricting to faculties that are not uncommonly in use.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-35485188364154436692013-08-01T06:41:01.972-05:002013-08-01T06:41:01.972-05:00A problem regarding (1) - how do we know it's ...A problem regarding (1) - how do we know it's true? Perhaps there are natural perceptual faculties we have that have not been "activated", as it were. In that case, this inactive faculty has not had the chance to function veridically. If we revise (1) to mention only activated faculties, we'll need to revise (2); but then, this revised (2) becomes question-begging. This comment seems to apply to the probabilistic version of the argument too.Mikhailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12450984267503289001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-27596274554546422652013-07-31T22:43:14.672-05:002013-07-31T22:43:14.672-05:00Good point. Though in that case, the argument only...Good point. Though in that case, the argument only works for the supernatural in case the supernatural is the creator.Mikhailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12450984267503289001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-22128672179920309202013-07-31T22:09:10.014-05:002013-07-31T22:09:10.014-05:00Everything is causally connected to the creator, i...Everything is causally connected to the creator, if there is a creator.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-57543183100495157192013-07-31T21:29:34.783-05:002013-07-31T21:29:34.783-05:00It seems a faculty must have some causal connecti...It seems a faculty must have some causal connection to its objects - the faculty of sight is causally connected to visual objects, for example. But it is far from clear how a faculty of religious perception is causally connected to its objects. Perhaps the question to ask here though is: what do you mean by faculty?Mikhailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12450984267503289001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-8629813269790977662013-07-31T12:51:50.984-05:002013-07-31T12:51:50.984-05:00Religious experience seems really widespread in hu...Religious experience seems really widespread in human beings, across cultures, and we don't usually consider people who have religious experiences to be somehow abnormal. Certainly, the evolutionary debunking folks don't. :-)Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-91623569002266044612013-07-31T12:04:24.525-05:002013-07-31T12:04:24.525-05:00I find proposition 2 alarming.I find proposition 2 alarming.Greg Gandenbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07515101396390926107noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-56187606654637468432013-07-31T11:58:12.852-05:002013-07-31T11:58:12.852-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Greg Gandenbergerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07515101396390926107noreply@blogger.com