RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
November 17, 2018 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2018 at 10:59 am by Anomalocaris.)
(November 17, 2018 at 10:26 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(November 17, 2018 at 10:11 am)Anomalocaris Wrote: There is no such thing as faith that is not blind. If it was not blind it wouldn’t need faith.
Your Realization is wrong.
It only seems to you to be time to jump into theology because you are infantile, misguided and lacking in fundamental facility for critical thinking.
Theology never offers any real answers. Nor can it ever. It contains no mechanism whatsoever for searching for material truth outside human psychology. It is all about calculating what lies and crass fiction dovetails best with common human cognitive deficits and thus can must likely be used as unifying element for forming cults.
Here, too, I would have to disagree that faith, blind or not, is an example of infantilism or lack of critical thought. Underdetermination of theory as well as Quine's radical translation thesis make it clear that even science isn't above adding a little something extra on the top that isn't explicitly required. The Duhem-Quine thesis also makes clear that a certain kind of holism that is essentially blind is required to draw any scientific conclusion. From a priori truths to the metaphysics of quantum mechanics interpretations, leaping to unjustified conclusion is not something confined to the lame or underaged, it is part and parcel of what we do. I think the crux of the matter lies elsewhere than simply focusing on whether the faith is blind or not.
The difference is where science adds a little extra on the top, or leaps to unjustified conclusion, confirmation or rebutting that little extra on the top and the unjustified conclusion is welcomed and not treated as an offense.
Science uses unjustified results as a sort of mirror to reflect light towards where a justifiable results might be found. In so far as the word faith is used for this, it means application of judgement in selecting which of the unjustified results are most likely to contribute towards the discovery an justified one.
But for the type of faith CDF claims to not be blind, Creating and then clinging to unjustified conclusion is the goal.
(November 17, 2018 at 10:26 am)Jörmungandr Wrote:(November 17, 2018 at 10:19 am)Everena Wrote: Oh and I suppose you are saying that you are so much more intelligent than I am, right? But, if you really were, you would just apply simple logic and realize how obvious it is that God exists. And be specific with your insults. What do you I not understand exactly?
The thesis that someone is inferior to you because they differ with you on one or more subjects is fatally flawed, and only a moron would think otherwise.
Indeed. Only an inferior being could disagree with that.