Simon Paynton
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 2 weeks agoUnderstanding – apprehending the truth – is an aspiration or goal. We can’t guarantee to reach an adequate understanding of something.
Understanding is true belief. False beliefs are either redundant or harmful because delusion is always unsatisfactory.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 28th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 2 weeks agoReg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
Univ. of Oklahoma punishes instructor for failing Christian student who didn’t do the assignment.She wrote a right-wing rant instead. I think that the student, Samantha Fulnecky, will never be able to get a normal job now. But there’s plenty of work spouting off on YouTube, playing the victim and pretending to be…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
@regthefronkeyfarmer – what does LLM think of your proof of Dracula?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The best you’ve got are symbolic arguments – “this” symbolises “that” and therefore “the other”. That’s not enough to prove something is real.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 14th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks ago@theencogitationer – the answers to both your points are “cooperation, sharing, and risky foraging niche”. The great apes are savage to each other, and especially the pre-human (pre- Ardipithecus ramidus, 4-6 million years ago) great apes, as we surmise from looking at the relative canine sizes of males and females. A big difference, with big m…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
King Iyk wrote:
You cannot reasonably expect me to prioritize your opinion over that of a system more knowledgeable than you and demonstrably superior at processing and validating data. That is precisely the point.Yes, but:
- argument from authority never cuts it.
- AI can’t tell you if the inputs to your argument are real or not: if there…
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 14th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
There was NO Garden of Eden, NO Golden Age, NO Noble Savagery.However, Power, oppression, and patriarchy did exist at least on a small scale and money existed when barter got too complicated
But you’re talking from the position of your armchair, off the top of your head, with no evidence.
Uh, ackshuyally, that did…
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
King Iyk wrote:
The 12-hour clock is not introduced as a mere human preference but as the actual temporal framework in which the crucifixion was recorded by the cultures that carried it out (Roman and Jewish). When Jewish and Roman timekeeping are synchronized at that historical event, the result is not a vague pattern but a specific geometric… -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
King Iyk wrote:
You could disprove this entire demonstration by conceiving an alternative demonstration of GodWe’re not going to do this, because we’re atheists and don’t believe in God, and none of us believes it’s possible to prove (or disprove) the existence of God.
If we’re arguing against your argument for the proof of God’s existence,…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
King Iyk wrote:
here, AI is not inventing; it is verifying a convergence of real-world data that no human forced. the proof is not just consistent, it is grounded. The data speak. The convergence stands. Q.E.D. still holds. If the premises are real, fixed, and independent, and they are, then a necessary structure arising from them is not merely… -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
• historically attested timestamps (3rd, 6th, 9th hour)
• independently defined timekeeping systems (Jewish and Roman)
• mathematically necessary properties of digital roots (3-6-9)
• geometric constraints of a 12-hour clock (3-6-9-12)This proof does not operate on visual noise or perceptual ambiguity. It operates on two immater…
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 14th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 5 months, 3 weeks agoStrega wrote:
it’s not just people dying, like snuffing out a candle. It’s about leprosy, polio, and a million savage unrepairable wounds. It’s about the misery of pain, and the proximity to animal violence that pervaded in your ‘sounds great’ description.I take your point, that living conditions and the lack of advanced medicine would have made…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 3 weeks ago
It may well be that @kingiyk‘s “proof” is logically consistent, i.e., logically valid. When AI checks it, it validates it on the grounds of internal logical consistency.
But that’s not the same as being empirically valid – valid in the real world. To be valid in the real world, all the premises have to be real (I don’t know – I assume) and t…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
The Trinity presupposes a God-concept that the Bible itself never articulates.But that doesn’t prove the Trinity is wrong.
Can we atheists recognise the wrongness of a description of something we think doesn’t exist? Not even wrong?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Simon Paynton wrote:
An AI proof isn’t proof.Unless it’s a dedicated theorem prover, or an AI program which has specifically been asked to prove a theorem, without flattering the user.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 6 months ago
TheEncogitationer wrote:
It puts out affirmation for every bit of nonsenseI think that AI flatters people.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 14th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 6 months agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m saying there was no Garden of Eden or “Golden Age” or “Noble Savagery”, whether terrifying, beautiful, or otherwise.No power, no oppression, no money, no patriarchy? Sounds great. It’s true that people died very young though.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 6 months ago
Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
If Father = fully GodAnd Son = fully God
And Father ≠ Son
Then “God” is both identical and non-identical.
You now have:
God = Father
God = Son
Father ≠ Son
This violates the basic identity logic: If A = C and B = C, then A = B.
You can’t escape bad logic with theological wordplay.
I’m not sure I agree that your refu…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 6 months ago
King Iyk wrote:
explain how a precise, formal model of it could be extracted from the immutable fabrics of reality: immaterial time and immaterial mathematics, converging at the crucifixion?Coincidental synthetic patterns. We can join the dots however we like.
King Iyk wrote:
explain why the foremost advancement of the human race in the… -
Simon Paynton replied to the topic A Formal Mathematical Model of The Holy Trinity. in the forum Atheism 6 months ago
@Robert – you’re assuming that the Bible is proposed as proof of God’s existence, when that may be too much burden. Maybe the Bible is not supposed to make sense, but God does.
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