RE: Evidence. Can't go there due to a prior committment
September 8, 2011 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2011 at 6:36 pm by Faith No More.)
(September 8, 2011 at 5:11 pm)Fred Wrote: Well, I'll take the long answer then.
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."
That part in bold is a great misrepresentation of why science doesn't use god to explain things....but I digress.
That quote is just a more eloquent restating of what you've already said. Without facts to back this up, it is just an opinion. What I want are the reasons, such as facts or examples, that point to it being an a priori conclusion. Could you give me something along those lines.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
