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Saturday, October 28, 2006

The Philosophical Failure of Atheistic Epistemology

I know you guys have missed me, and sorry for not getting on here more often (busy is as busy does). I will have the top 25 Casey Counts Em Down List up tomorrow, but this weekend just so happens to be my birthday. In the meantime, I thought I might look over some Atheist Epistemology. It seems to be very contradictory, but yet at the same time condemns contradiction. It is in itself quite hypocritical and must be rejected. I will demonstrate this from a site called Importance of Philosophy. www.importanceofphilosophy.com. No doubt this site has some good articles here, but we'll review them in context of Christian Epistemology first. Its important to understand that principles of logic are the foundation of our knowledge. They consist of 5 important principles, that of Ontological and Epistemological importance. The first is the law of excluded middle, which states that it is either true or false, not both and nothing in the middle. The 2nd is the law of noncontradiction which states that it is or it is not, but can not be both. The third law is the law of identity, which states that what is is. The 4th is the cause and effect, that every effect has a cause. And the 5th is the law of finality that every means has an end, everything has a purpose.

Most Atheistic Philosophy is based on a system of Objectivism, or otherwise known as Empiricism. It tries to deny A Priori Knowledge by stating that we gather everything through experience and nature, otherwise that of inductive or a posteriori reasoning. It basically has no justification and is one that declares other philosophies self contradictory, and by no means applying its very tests to its own philosophy. This presents a hypocritical stance. Their primary basis is that Perception is the only self evident and everything can be reduced to Nominalism. This is to say that Perception is therefore objective, making the one as opposite to the other true, meaning it is self defeating. The other problem is that the everything else can be reduced to an idea or concept just appears to be self evident would therefore include itself, and this is self defeating as well. In regards to perception, Atheists assert: There is never a question that what we perceive is accurate. The only question is whether we accurately interpret what we perceive. This first states that there is never a question about our perception, but then questions the interpretation of our perception. This would offer a question about our perception in itself, since the perception would itself be interpreting, and must therefore be a question of the perception in the first place, and as such, it is self defeating and false. It tries to assert that truth is perception, but then that truth is not perception. There is no way that perception can be truth. You will notice a bit of Nihilism within its character as well: Traces from the mythology of Adam and Eve and that whole apple nonsense. This shows an inability to care enough about an opponents position to the extent of whether or not we should take our opponent here seriously or not. The obvious answer is no. A reiification is also noted here: The ultimate collectivist, since we are all aspects of the same universal entity of man. As well, it tries to demonstrate a lack of intelligence towards the position of God when stating, "Omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent, unlimited creator of the universe
Comment: It's defined by it's lack of characteristics and limits." This sets the characteristics and limits, then turns around and tries to state that it is undefined after defining it. This is self refuting and false.

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