Incredulous Logic

[Statler Waldorf]

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But we know the process that attracts the ball to the ground.
We understand gravity.

you cant just say.

http://www.thelogician.net/6_reflect/6_B...ter_02.htm

and so you have 'god'.


The principle of induction is boiled down in that wall of text to.

given any appearance, we may take it to be real, until and unless it is found to be illusory.

This neatly moves the burdon of proof away from the person making the claim and as such can be easily dismissed as a rather crude ploy at manipulating the handling of evidence.

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Sure we know the process, but you have no justification for your belief that the process will continue into the future, that's the point.

As to the article you presented, I realize what the principle of induction is; the problem is that if we did live in an atheistic universe there would be no way to justify this principle. In other words there would be no logical basis for believing in the principle of induction. This is why Hume was so critical of science, because it was based on a principle that had absolutely no justification in a purely naturalistic universe. The Christian Theist has no problem with induction or science for that matter because God revealed in scripture that He will uphold His creation in a predictable and uniform matter allowing us to make predictions and empirically acquire knowledge about the world around us.


Further reading on the subject...

http://www.proginosko.com/docs/induction.html