There is no way a religious person can win a debate with an atheist person, purely because the atheist cannot coherently defend objective, ontological truth when his worldview denies any objective ontological ground of being from which truth is contingent.
Whenever the atheist appeals to rationality, intelligibility, objective truth, or moral normativity, he is actually borrowing theistic metaphysics which are concepts that only make sense if reality participates in transcendental and ontological truth and is ordered by an objective Logos.
Without that grounding, the atheist's claims about "truth" collapse into subjective constructs or personal preferences.
More than this, if truth is not objective, then the atheist has no nonโarbitrary basis for claiming that the "truth of science" is a better framework for reality than the "opiate of religion".
So, if objective, ontological truth is real, then the atheist must concede that a transcendent ground of truth โ which is God โ exists.
But if there is no objective, ontological truth and only personal preference, then I choose religion, since religion gave us Western civilisation and atheism gave us the Holodomor.
New Anglofuturism episode: Oxford's startup monastery
We visited HomeDAO: a newly-founded, รผber-competitive and highly successful start-up accelerator. If there is to be a British PayPal mafia then it is quite likely that it will emerge from this hacker house in Oxford.
Part 1 is out today. Calum and I talked to Josh Lavorini, a HomeDAO co-founder, about talent identification, taste, Oxford, the Coase theorem, British unicorns, the shortcomings of Old Street, and plenty more.
Listen via anglofuturism dot c o or your usual podcast app.
After a month of open Beta optimising we are now officially live!
More than 18.000 checkins and 8000 reviews battletested our mobile app!
Available for download on iOS, Android and @solanamobile
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We built in stealth for ~6 months (check the commit history).
EXO 1.0 is a huge leap forward in local AI. It brings technologies only ever seen in the data center to your own devices (like RDMA).
Dimitar Berbatov has officially joined Footium ๐ค
One of the Premier Leagueโs most iconic ice-cold finishers has entered the Footium world as both a manager and a strategic backer โฝ
Dimitar Berbatov has officially joined Footium ๐ค
One of the Premier Leagueโs most iconic ice-cold finishers has entered the Footium world as both a manager and a strategic backer โฝ
pretty cool that this guy is the founder of @nokia , a company that's almost 200 years old... would be cool to look into similar-ish companies, eg Nintendo, and try to find commonalities in institution building, culture etc.