(June 8, 2011 at 4:24 pm)Napoleon666 Wrote:(June 8, 2011 at 4:16 pm)diffidus Wrote: I am saying that, at this point in history, judging from our previous performance, it seems unlikely that we are at the edge of knowledge and ,therefore, we cannot deduce the probability of God's existence from current empirical measurement. I am wary of leaping to conclusions from such a weak position, namely, the full weight of Humakind's historical errors.
You are basically saying that because we have not found evidence of god yet we must just say 'he might exist' and wait until we do find evidence to confirm his existence (even though we probably won't find any evidence).
Judging by your logic we should say there might be pixies, and yeti's, and little red riding hood, and bigfoot etc. We don't have the knowledge to dismiss those mythical creatures do we? According to your own logic?
Diffidus:
Not really - we may find evidence or we may not. There may come a period in history when we really have solved all the problems of nature and that we a very certain that there is a low probability that any new phenomena will not be found. We are nowhere near this point yet and so we cannot we cannot rule out new phenomena on probability grounds. The only grounds on which to rule out new phenomena is belief. It is a difficult position to hold, most unsatisfactory- but at least I am true to the facts as they are.
