(January 5, 2025 at 4:39 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:(January 5, 2025 at 1:50 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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?"(my bold)
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.
Once again, Willie has shifted the burden off himself.
More accurately, he has no clue as to how science works. Nobody can prove that existence didn't begin five minutes ago but there's precisely zero evidence that it did. Without evidence there's no reason to entertain that notion any more than there is for pixies, dragons, or unicorns. Besides, everybody knows that the world began four minutes ago.
