(February 7, 2011 at 11:53 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote:This is evidence that the scientific method (generally conceived) is effective for evaluating scientific claims about the physical world, but it says nothing about the epistemological claim that the scientific method is the best and only reliable method for evaluating all truth claims (e.g. epistemological claims).(February 7, 2011 at 11:25 am)Matthew Wrote:Wrong. Evidence: Electricity, penicilin, suspension bidges, radio, laser, nuclear power, genetically modified food, telecscopes, computers, television, the internal combustion engine, petrol...(February 7, 2011 at 9:05 am)Captain Scarlet Wrote: When evaluating a truth claim then the best and only reliable method we have is science which relies on evidence.This is itself a truth claim, but I can conceive of no evidence that supports it. By its own lights, then, I must reject it.
Matthew
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else." C.S. Lewis