(September 6, 2011 at 3:08 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Because I have dropped balls many times before, because the reason that the ball drops is known and understood, because I have no reason to believe the contrary.
In short, if you are saying that the ball will not drop, (assuming we are stood on he earth). then you have to prove why not.
I don't need to prove it will not happen, because I have a biblical basis for believing it will happen. However, in an atheistic universe you have no justification in this belief. You say, "Well balls have always fallen to the ground in the past." Yes they have, but if you are using this to justify believing they will do this in the future you are really only assuming the proof. This form of justification would only be valid if there was uniformity in nature which is the very thing you are trying to prove. So the very principle of induction, that all of science is based upon is something that cannot be proven to be true apart from scripture, and yet you believe it is true. Right?
