(March 4, 2009 at 4:13 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Faith (including a belief in God) isn't the only thing exempt from evidence. As Kyu says, so is Maths.
Um, why would maths require evidence? Maths isn’t made of theories, it’s made of proofs. And even when maths based ideas are advanced as fact they are tested in the real world with real world evidence so I'm not at all sure what your point is.
It's worth pointing out that there are many thing that are exempt from evidence; The plot lines of novels, the screenplays of movies, the renaissance painting are all ways of describing things every bit as interesting as maths or faith ... none require evidence but then again they don't pretend (or are not taken) to offer any specific truths either.
Kyu
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