RE: Creationism
August 12, 2020 at 6:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2020 at 6:52 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It was a poor choice of stand to insist that science cannot answer metaphysics, especially in the context of being or thomist metaphysics. Mostly, because one generations metaphysics can become the next generations plain old physics - which has happened multiple times since saint tom...and even more hilariously, since saint tom was using the science of his day to answer the metaphysical questions of his day.
It's no more or less than the insistence that in case our pet metaphysicians can't prove themselves right, at least they can't be proven wrong. It's self serving, illogical, and false. Any cognitive statement that can be true, can also be false. That's a requirement of cognitive statements. If a metaphysical statement has a truth value, if it is a cognitive statament, that value can be false - and a system for assessing the soundness of our assertions can most definitely answer it. Truth values are fundamentally premised on exactly this.
There's a reason that early scientists expected science to prove their gods, and then turned on that notion and science in general when it went the other way for them.
It's no more or less than the insistence that in case our pet metaphysicians can't prove themselves right, at least they can't be proven wrong. It's self serving, illogical, and false. Any cognitive statement that can be true, can also be false. That's a requirement of cognitive statements. If a metaphysical statement has a truth value, if it is a cognitive statament, that value can be false - and a system for assessing the soundness of our assertions can most definitely answer it. Truth values are fundamentally premised on exactly this.
There's a reason that early scientists expected science to prove their gods, and then turned on that notion and science in general when it went the other way for them.
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