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Letters
Letters
The Atheists Strike Back • A Goff of Limited Power • Since You Asked • The Problem Is The Medium • Ducking Responsibility • What About Compassion?
The Atheists Strike Back
Dear Editor: I have problems with Anselm’s ontological argument which was summarised in Issue 165. It’s: ‘God is the greatest; It is greater to exist than not exist; Therefore God exists’. The first premise is an unevidenced assertion which implies the conclusion. And ‘greatest’ is meaningful only in relation to a defined scale of value. It sometimes means ‘biggest’; but we might speak of the greatest wine or the greatest marathon runner.
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