William Lane Craig: "Or take the belief that the world was created five minutes ago; how could you prove scientifically that the world was not created five minutes ago with built-in memory traces in our brains, food in our stomachs from lunches that we never really ate, and other appearances of age?"
So science cannot disprove that the world was created five minutes ago, but using science people have discovered that the world is billions of years old. Funny how this works.
WLC: Or what about even the belief that the external word exists – how do we know that the external world is not just an illusion? There is no way to prove that there really is a spacetime world out there, scientifically.
Well, Bill, we can detect the external world with our senses and devices and even interact with it, that's called proof.
So science cannot disprove that the world was created five minutes ago, but using science people have discovered that the world is billions of years old. Funny how this works.
WLC: Or what about even the belief that the external word exists – how do we know that the external world is not just an illusion? There is no way to prove that there really is a spacetime world out there, scientifically.
Well, Bill, we can detect the external world with our senses and devices and even interact with it, that's called proof.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
