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Mormonism is materialist. Exmormons tend to remain materialists. But respected agnostic cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin points out that, in order for the laws of physics to bring about the physical universe, those laws must exist outside the same, in some platonic realm. I.e., materialism must fail.

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Philosopher Theodore M. Drange (famous for the Argument from Nonbelief against God's existence) argues for his definitions of "atheist," "agnostic," and "theist," and suggests that rational people will sometimes be theists and sometimes be atheists, depending on the God in question, etc.

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Scholars now taking seriously the mind ("spirit," if you want to use a religious term) as a fundamental property of nature: "What follows from the impossibility of reduction within this argumentative framework? An apparent consequence is that consciousness must be viewed as something fundamental."

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Exmormons tend to be existential nihilists. Should they be? Emerging scholars: "What follows from the impossibility of reduction [of mind to brain] within this argumentative framework? An apparent consequence is that consciousness must be viewed as something fundamental."

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Mormonism is materialist. Exmormons tend to remain materialists. But respected agnostic cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin points out that in order for the laws of physics to bring about the physical universe, those laws must exist outside the same, in some platonic realm. I.e., materialism must fail.

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Mormonism is materialist. Exmormons tend to remain materialists. But respected agnostic cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin points out that, in order for the laws of physics to bring about the physical universe, those laws must exist outside the same, in some platonic realm. I.e., materialism must fail.	7	exmormon
Philosopher Theodore M. Drange (famous for the Argument from Nonbelief against God's existence) argues for his definitions of "atheist," "agnostic," and "theist," and suggests that rational people will sometimes be theists and sometimes be atheists, depending on the God in question, etc.	3	exmormon
Scholars now taking seriously the mind ("spirit," if you want to use a religious term) as a fundamental property of nature: "What follows from the impossibility of reduction within this argumentative framework? An apparent consequence is that consciousness must be viewed as something fundamental."	1	exmormon
Exmormons tend to be existential nihilists. Should they be? Emerging scholars: "What follows from the impossibility of reduction [of mind to brain] within this argumentative framework? An apparent consequence is that consciousness must be viewed as something fundamental."	1	exmormon
Mormonism is materialist. Exmormons tend to remain materialists. But respected agnostic cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin points out that in order for the laws of physics to bring about the physical universe, those laws must exist outside the same, in some platonic realm. I.e., materialism must fail.	1	exmormon