(August 18, 2016 at 9:28 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote:(August 18, 2016 at 9:15 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I would agree, hyper-skepticsm is pretty much impossible to live by. Which I think is often why you normally see it in the selective variety.
I completely agree with you, so I'll quote myself here because I feel it bears repeating:
If demanding that the highest grade of scientific evidence be demonstrated before believing in things like talking donkeys, walking on water, magical fruit, and zombies is being a "hyper-skeptic", then I'll proudly wear the label. [emoji41]
Well to be consistent and avoid special pleading, you would need to do that for all things. From my point of view, I do think that we may (or even need) to accept things on faith or trust. But that doesn't give us any more reason to believe them. We can't realistically check everything out. Do you think it is fair for people to be hyper-skeptical about evolution?
