RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 23, 2019 at 9:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2019 at 9:03 am by LadyForCamus.)
(March 23, 2019 at 5:56 am)bennyboy Wrote:(March 22, 2019 at 9:43 pm)LadyForCamus Wrote: I’m not making an assertion, but nice try. I’m saying that I’ll believe another reliable method of knowing things exists when someone shows it to me, lol. It’s what I’ve been asking for, for several years now. No one has ever been able to offer me anything. Just like god.
This statement seems a little peculiar to me, and I'd like you to clarify on it. Is science really the vehicle by which you know what exists? Like, are you suspicious of putting books on a new desk until you confirm the hypothesis that it's a real desk?
My post was in response to Belaqua’s earlier claim that there is no way to investigate or gather information about the existence of god using the scientific method. I was accused of having a closed-minded, metaphysical commitment to empirical investigation as the only means to acquire knowledge about that which is real. My response, then, is that if you’re asserting one method is not going to work, by what other method can I gather information in order to have a good chance at reaching an accurate conclusion about the existence of a god? And how do we know this alternative method is reliable? What about this alternative method lends itself to accuracy, so that I don’t have to wonder if I’m just guessing about stuff?
It’s not helpful to tell someone, “I can’t believe you think this one way is going to get you there; you’re so closed minded”, without telling them what the other ways are.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”
Wiser words were never spoken.
Wiser words were never spoken.
