RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
April 8, 2018 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2018 at 12:33 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(April 8, 2018 at 12:18 pm)polymath257 Wrote:(April 8, 2018 at 12:06 pm)Transcended Dimensions Wrote: Now, I have given an example with an all knowing being in my previous post. Are you sure this all knowing being would say that the paranormal, soul, god, and afterlife is all bullshit? After all, this is an amazing, all knowing being we are talking about here and, thus, he might actually say something radical and unexpected. Skeptics would expect him to say that the paranormal is all bullshit while proponents of the paranormal would expect him to say that the paranormal is real. But what would he really say?
First present the all-knowing being. Show why we think that being is all-knowing. Then we can proceed.
Would an all-knowing being think that a perpetual motion machine is possible? Well, given what we know today pretty much everyone would say no. But perhaps we missed something and such machines are possible. Does that mean we need to take the possibility seriously? No.
Your introduction of an unknowable all-knowing being is a red herring. It doesn't add anything to what we already know. It only points to the fact that *all* of our know;edge of the real world is tentative to some degree. That doesn't mean we have to be so open minded our brains fall out.
The all knowing being was just a hypothetical example to make my point. You are also saying that we are just biological machines and, based upon that perspective, you conclude that there is no life after death and that we are not immortal. But that is, again, just your skeptical/materialistic position. I am talking about the all knowing perspective of a hypothetical all knowing being. This requires you to suspend your skeptical/materialistic perspective and be open minded towards what this hypothetical all knowing being would really say. He might say that we are souls that leave the body based upon what the researchers say in regards to quantum physics. Or he might say that the skeptics had it right all along and that, once we die, that is it. So, in this hypothetical example of an all knowing being, we must suspend all our perspectives. Christians must suspend their perspective, Buddhists must suspend their perspective, and skeptics must suspend their perspective as well.