arielann81
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello PB,
I had a debate over the existence of God with an atheist co-worker the other day and his closing argument against my logic was called "fuzzy logic." I'm curious to see if any of you have come across this? Here is the back story:
So I've been a busy little Calvinist recently and haven't been on the boards due to personal study or opportunities God has brought my way. This opportunity originated on my personal Facebook of all places. I had been told a simple method of establishing the existence of God through a logical statement answering where we come from in three simple statements. This was an apologetic that seemed rather effective so I posted the three statements on my Facebook and a brief explanation. The statements were: We are either supernatural, self made, or made by the supernatural. Supernatural meaning we have the power of being within ourselves, the second breaking the law of non-contradiction which leaves the third: being made by the supernatural.
I'm in a unique position where I work because there are only 6 of us in a room and between calls we are allowed to play games or surf the web etc. We all have instant messenger up and have a group chat we use to talk but most are checking Facebook as well or at least online. When I posted on a break one of my co-workers saw this and replied trying to debunk my logic. We had an interchange and I forwarded a link to an article titled: The Christian Worldview, the Atheist Worldview, and Logic from the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry website. After reading this he proceeded to give an argument for "fuzzy logic."
I had never heard of this term before and although I mentioned that he was basically trying to debunk logic at this point he countered that he wasn't trying to debunk logic but add to it and that logicians don't have it all figured out yet..lol. I told him I would look into it.
Have any of you encountered this before? Also, we are still on friendly terms. He sits right next to me so I knew at some point I would have to grant him that I wasn't trying to pick on him but he was responding to my personal Facebook after all. All this happened while sitting next to each other without actually speaking to one another. It was rather strange. In the end I spoke to him out loud and that's when he brought up the fuzzy logic where I allowed it to end for the day.
He also said something to the effect of well I will still believe what I believe and so will you and I of course said that was the quintessential Postmodernist remark and laughed. He said yes, since it doesn't originate from anywhere and it was the end of the day so we went home. Since then however he has told me I was awesome... in relation to work stuff.. so apparently I didn't push him away too far.
Still working on the best way to proceed with Apologetics after the existence of God is established. Thought I would share with you all.
I had a debate over the existence of God with an atheist co-worker the other day and his closing argument against my logic was called "fuzzy logic." I'm curious to see if any of you have come across this? Here is the back story:
So I've been a busy little Calvinist recently and haven't been on the boards due to personal study or opportunities God has brought my way. This opportunity originated on my personal Facebook of all places. I had been told a simple method of establishing the existence of God through a logical statement answering where we come from in three simple statements. This was an apologetic that seemed rather effective so I posted the three statements on my Facebook and a brief explanation. The statements were: We are either supernatural, self made, or made by the supernatural. Supernatural meaning we have the power of being within ourselves, the second breaking the law of non-contradiction which leaves the third: being made by the supernatural.
I'm in a unique position where I work because there are only 6 of us in a room and between calls we are allowed to play games or surf the web etc. We all have instant messenger up and have a group chat we use to talk but most are checking Facebook as well or at least online. When I posted on a break one of my co-workers saw this and replied trying to debunk my logic. We had an interchange and I forwarded a link to an article titled: The Christian Worldview, the Atheist Worldview, and Logic from the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry website. After reading this he proceeded to give an argument for "fuzzy logic."
I had never heard of this term before and although I mentioned that he was basically trying to debunk logic at this point he countered that he wasn't trying to debunk logic but add to it and that logicians don't have it all figured out yet..lol. I told him I would look into it.
Have any of you encountered this before? Also, we are still on friendly terms. He sits right next to me so I knew at some point I would have to grant him that I wasn't trying to pick on him but he was responding to my personal Facebook after all. All this happened while sitting next to each other without actually speaking to one another. It was rather strange. In the end I spoke to him out loud and that's when he brought up the fuzzy logic where I allowed it to end for the day.
He also said something to the effect of well I will still believe what I believe and so will you and I of course said that was the quintessential Postmodernist remark and laughed. He said yes, since it doesn't originate from anywhere and it was the end of the day so we went home. Since then however he has told me I was awesome... in relation to work stuff.. so apparently I didn't push him away too far.
Still working on the best way to proceed with Apologetics after the existence of God is established. Thought I would share with you all.