(March 3, 2016 at 8:34 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(March 2, 2016 at 4:54 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Postulating an uncaused anything is not very logical. It's a leap of faith.Merely taking the world as intelligible is a leap of faith. Believing that we can know anything is a leap of faith.
This is a symptom of Binary Religious Thinking.
We can enough evidence for something that the chance of being wrong is negligible.
Or a more nuanced idea is out of scope of the context in which it is being discussed. For example, I don't need to understand Einstein's theory regarding the curvature of space-time to understand that if I jump off a skyscraper then I will die.