Well Aleia's new hotty sure lays waste to belief in the God of the bible read literally. Gods as a category is a lot harder to debunk, though anyone with a rational mind can be made to laugh at some aspect of most if not all of them.
Personally I don't restrict my understanding of the world to what survives the filtering of the rational mind. You'd have to toss out the arts if you did that. There are truths that won't survive that reduction that would leave life a poorer thing. Emerson's saying fits here: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." You can't beat science for verifying claims regarding the objective world. But you can't hold your understanding of yourself or your human potential to that same test without loss.
Personally I don't restrict my understanding of the world to what survives the filtering of the rational mind. You'd have to toss out the arts if you did that. There are truths that won't survive that reduction that would leave life a poorer thing. Emerson's saying fits here: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds." You can't beat science for verifying claims regarding the objective world. But you can't hold your understanding of yourself or your human potential to that same test without loss.
