(January 3, 2023 at 1:17 am)GrandizerII Wrote:(January 2, 2023 at 10:53 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Let's say that only 1 out of 100 or so adult amputees were healed, but only on occasion, after fervent prayers, but yet on other occasions exactly 1000 were healed with no prayers immediately followed by the Earth stopping in its orbit about the Sun with no ill effects whatsoever except that the Earth's rotation immediately switched direction with the Sun rising in the West instead of the East followed by the Moon completely disappearing only to reappear exactly 73 days later, which was followed by a return to complete naturalistic normalcy, except for the fact that all of the observable galaxies in the Universe (save our own) have disappeared from view at all wavelengths of light only to all instaneously reappear exactly 13 years later to the exact second?
Maybe there would be those who would try to "model" this phenomenon, or, perhaps, such would be "proof positive" that electrons and protons have conscious wills. I do not know, except physicalism would have, in my judgment, been thoroughly falsified.
It would certainly put physicalism into doubt here, though there will still be explanations that save physicalism in this case. For example, super advanced aliens that are able to trick our eyes using super advanced technology far beyond our comprehension.
Well, then, let's say that after all of this a god, super being, etc., showed-up glowing with white rage and began torturing any doubting physicalists from the inside out until they, willingly or not, changed their minds and publicly recanted physicalism?
