RE: Regariding the evidence for materialism
September 4, 2011 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2011 at 11:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You have evidence of anything that isn't physical? That's the source of the claim. There are things for which we have evidence. These things are material things. There is a lack of evidence for anything else. The only things we should be comfortable asserting any sort of provisional certitude over are things which we have observed. Some claims about the "supernatural" are in direct contradiction to what we know about the material world. This wouldn't be a problem, except that many of these claims are claims of interaction. Problematic, because we would then see the effects of this interaction at the very least, which we do not. So, either our understanding of what is material is fundamentally flawed, or we have some misconceptions about the supernatural. One side of this debate has mountains of observations, predictions, results, and is constantly revised. What do we have from the other side?
(you've used the phrase "waiting for death" and if this is truly the case I don't want to have to be the guy who argues away the notion of a soul or afterlife to a dying man.)
(you've used the phrase "waiting for death" and if this is truly the case I don't want to have to be the guy who argues away the notion of a soul or afterlife to a dying man.)
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