1. The Transcendental Argument for God

Comment #81446 by Eelis on October 24, 2007 at 6:22 pm

First of all, the argument is incomplete. Certainly its advocates would not claim that, in general, for a process to be able to produce something having property X, the process itself must have property X (because by that logic, a fast car can only be produced by a fast process). In what way is the property of rationality supposedly special?

Fortunately, regardless of its incompleteness, the argument can be refuted by exhibiting a counterexample: evolution. Evolution naturally gives rise to rational agents, because rationality gives an obvious competitive advantage (e.g. being able to reason about the location of food or attackers, being able to select the best location to grow crops, etc.). In particular, this explanation requires no rational agent guiding the process.

2. Mother Teresa's '40-year faith crisis'

Comment #65493 by Eelis on August 24, 2007 at 1:16 pm

Haha, fantastic! Made my day :-).