(May 28, 2009 at 7:01 pm)Tiberius Wrote:(May 28, 2009 at 3:05 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: And Adrian ... I think that using philosophy to substitute for lack of evidence is insane, whilst it may be of interest philosophy (and I'm not talking "of science") alone has never proven a damned thing.I never said it proved anything, those are your words. I'm saying that there are some things that science cannot explain, things like free-will. The only way to prove free-will would be to go back in time and see if actions played out exactly the same as before. We simply do not have the technology (and science says it is impossible) to do so.
Unless you can come up with a better experiment than that, the question of free-will lies in the realm of philosophy, as does God, etc.
So I IOW reject DEISM and think deism is highly implausible for exactly the same reason that I reject 'free will'.
I.e. No evidence or reason to believe whatsoever. I don't care whether it' POSSIBLE or not for there to be evidence - I need evidence! I'm not going to believe without evidence. I'm not going to believe on 'faith'. I need a rational reason to believe - I need evidence.
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