(September 7, 2011 at 4:07 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Again, provisional certainty makes no such claim. Things could indeed not work the same way tomorrow as they do today. That human knowledge is fallible is built into the system. That they do work the same way today is proof that at least for today, the laws of physics haven't changed. Tomorrow is a new day though. Still waiting for satellites to fall out of the sky.
That’s the correct answer given an atheistic universe, however you do not live your life consistent with what you said right here. If you woke up in the morning and your car was missing you would certainly not just assume, “well the laws of physics must be different today and my car ceased to exist overnight.” Rather you would assume your car was stolen because given the principle of induction you can believe your car will not pop out of existence tomorrow because the laws of physics do not change like that. You just cannot justify this belief given your worldview. Anytime someone is forced to live their life differently than their stated worldview it is not a good sign for that worldview.
Quote: Burden of proof amigo. That these fossils have been deposited over millions of years is well demonstrated, and you know that. If you wish to propose a different theory that's your baby. I don't make it my business going around educating people who claim to have already been educated. I'll just link you a bunch of wiki articles, you know this.
More smoke I see. That’s not how the burden of proof works my friend.
Well demonstrated? You can actually demonstrate skeletons being laid down over millions of years? Wow, that’s quite a long laboratory experiment. The only explanation that has actually been empirically demonstrated is that those layers are laid down very quickly by flood waters. So I actually hold to the more scientific position than your faith based one. You believe in things that have never been observed to happen.
I know you would only link up a bunch of Wiki articles, that’s why I call you a poser. You act as if you know a great deal about topics that you actually have to type into unscholarly sources such as Wikipedia.