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Islam's coming renaissance will rise in the West : Comments
By Ameer Ali, published 4/5/2007The authority of the pulpit is collapsing by the hour. A wave of rationalism is spreading from émigré Muslim intellectuals.
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“Each of us has the capacity to absorb and accept things that defy logic or are external to it. That we choose not to believe in God does not diminish or invalidate this capability.”
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“… there are people who rely upon faith instead of logic to inform them of the nature and dimensions of the universe”.
For those, who still follow, let me summarise:
Logic cannot be an arbiter of your belief or unbelief in God, neither can it tell you that you cannot know (though you might have very good reasons for any one of the three alternatives). Like logic cannot be an arbiter of your belief or unbelief that John Howard is a better PM than his alternative, nor can it tell you that you cannot know (though you might have very good reasons for any one of the three alternatives). In both cases there are many rational (or irrational) arguments to defend or justify (to yourself and hopefully to others) your choice: just do not bring logic into play, because if logic (as it is uderstood by specialists today) worked like that you would not have, for instance, a computer on which to write these postings.
Your reaction to my example of logical inference “If A implies B (or A is part of B) then necessarily nonB implies nonA (or nonB is part of nonA)” seems to indicate that you indeed have problems with what logic is about . The premise here is IRRELEVANT (you can replace the two-handed humans with three-handed humans if you like, which will defy common sense as you rightly point out, but will not effect the inference