Chains 1-100
From Chains of Reason
Chains > 1-100
- Chain 1
- The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- Chain 2
- The brain is a biological computer.
- Chain 3
- Life on Earth evolved by natural selection.
- Chain 4
- People do not possess free will.
- Chain 5
- There exists a god or multiple gods. [the Design Argument (or teleological argument)]
- Chain 6
- Physical pain is not a sensation, but an emotion.
- Chain 7
- An all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good god does not exist. [The Problem of Evil]
- Chain 8
- It is in one's interests to believe in the existence of the god of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. [Pascal's Wager]
- Chain 9
- One's visual world is not merely a mental image of the external world.
- Chain 10
- The mental image of the external world created during visual perception is not in turn perceived in order to be experienced.
- Chain 11
- People possess free will.
- Chain 12
- A person's ability to make their own decisions, based on their own will, is not in itself free will.
- Chain 13
- It is unprincipled to support the democratic process.
- Chain 14
- Religious blasphemy by nonbelievers is not possible.
- Chain 15
- Moral responsibility requires free will.
- Chain 16
- Moral responsibility does not require free will.
- Chain 17
- Abortion is immoral.
- Chain 18
- Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the Son of God.
- Chain 19
- Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- Chain 20
- A person who never lies may still say things which are untrue.
- Chain 21
- Smacking a child should be illegal.
- Chain 22
- All sincerely held beliefs must be the product of logic.
- Chain 23
- Abortion is not immoral.
- Chain 24
- The death penalty is immoral.
- Chain 25
- The death penalty for those who commit murder is not immoral.
- Chain 26
- Human emotions are innate to the human species rather than learnt.
- Chain 27
- Moral laws are not laws of nature.
- Chain 28
- Morality could be purely a creation of the human mind.
- Chain 29
- The 'moral emotions', such as guilt and empathy, are not the product of morality.
- Chain 30
- The morality or immorality of a person's actions depends on not just whether the act is in accordance moral rules, but also the person's motivation.
- Chain 31
- The morality or immorality of a person's actions depends on not just whether the act is in accordance moral rules, but also the person's motivation.
- Chain 32
- It is logically impossible for any intelligent being to possess free will.
- Chain 33
- It is logically impossible for a person to possess free will.
- Chain 34
- The external world of the past can exist in the present.
- Chain 35
- Memories of the external world of the past are not the external world of the past itself.
- Chain 36
- The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- Chain 37
- The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- Chain 38
- The world of one's perceptions is merely a mental simulation of the external world.
- Chain 39
- The Design Argument does not prove the existence of a unique, all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good god.
- Chain 40
- There exists a god or multiple gods. [a variation of the Design Argument based on the Anthropic Principle]
- Chain 41
- Even if it is extremely unlikely that two things are simultaneously true, the truth of one of them does not entail that the other is false.
- Chain 42
- The existence of a universe which is hospitable to humans, and life in general, can be explained without reference to a creation process which was biased towards creating that universe.
- Chain 43
- There exists a god or multiple gods. [the First Cause Argument (or Cosmological Argument)]
- Chain 44
- The First Cause Argument is self-contradictory.
- Chain 45
- Something which is the product of a chain of cause and effect stretching infinitely back in time still an immediate cause, if not an initial cause.
- Chain 46
- Today's universe could be the product of an infinite chain of cause and effect and yet also be of a finite age.
- Chain 47
- A being with independent existence from our universe, and immensely more intelligence and power than humans, is not necessarily a god.
- Chain 48
- The First Cause Argument does not prove the existence of a unique, ever-present, all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good god.
- Chain 49
- It is possible that uncaused causation can occur naturally.
- Chain 50
- A god must exist, by definition. [The Ontological Argument]
- Chain 51
- A real being is not greater than an imaginary being just because the latter lacks the reality of the former.
- Chain 52
- The Ontological Argument is unsound.
- Chain 53
- The greatest imaginable example of any particular category of things could still exist even if it does not exist in the universe.
- Chain 54
- The Ontological Argument is contradicted by the Problem of Evil.
- Chain 55
- A god is not necessarily the greatest being imaginable.
- Chain 56
- A god which is all-good would not have the desire to prevent human suffering.
- Chain 57
- The degree and extent of human suffering in the world could be far less without reducing the amount of saintly or heroic action in the world.
- Chain 58
- A world without human suffering is morally preferable to this world, in which there is human suffering, even though the former would lack the acts of extreme moral goodness, performed by saints and heroes, that occur in this world.
