Posted: Sep 20, 2013 5:51 pm
Mick wrote:Rumraket wrote:Mick wrote:Rumraket wrote:
What does that even mean? As a christian, surely you believe in a soul and an afterlife?
I'm sorry that you don't want to shoulder your burden of proof.
It means that the idea of disembodied minds like that in Ghost are simply not part of Thomist thought.
I will shoulder a burden of proof. The objection was that your burden is lighter, and that is typical of atheists here on RS.
Once again you missed a question.
I think it's really just the nature of the topic. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
That is dependent on your perspective. On my view, materialism or physicialism is an extraordinary claim.
From an evidentialist perspective, there isn't evidence of anything else. This is not a claim of certainty that there isn't something more, or that it is logically impossible to exist, only that there is no empirical evidence to justify it. Although I'm sympathetic to complaints that proponents of "the immaterial/supernatural" is erecting incomprehensible propositions, I have to be mindful that my comprehension isn't a requirement of the true nature of things.
What little philosophical arguments are erected in support of "non-physicalism" (for lack of a better term) it seems to me at bottom all reduce to arguments from ignorance. Basically it all boils down to people not being able to understand how matter, energy and the interactions between them in space and time, can produce phenomenon x.