RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
August 4, 2017 at 2:48 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2017 at 2:49 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 4, 2017 at 11:30 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 4, 2017 at 11:17 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: my point is simply that I find "I don't know" to be a perfectly acceptable provisional answer, and I don't understand why your particular god should be the default answer in the face of ignorance.
See above. It is not a option to say "I don't know" when, for example, faced with certain end of life decisions, such as pulling the plug on a critically injured loved one.
That has absolutely nothing to do with what you and I are discussing. You asked me how I would appreciate unexplained phenomena. Your use of the phrase "visible efficient cause" tells me you were asking the question in the material sense ... but now you're trying to answer my point by appealing to something else which is immaterial in both senses of the word. (Even if it were germane to our discussion, I would still dismiss your point because it is an appeal to consequences).