(July 8, 2012 at 7:44 am)CliveStaples Wrote:(July 8, 2012 at 7:04 am)FallentoReason Wrote: My memory can be verified. I just ate dinner and to prove to myself that I did I can either open the fridge and see that food is gone or regurgitate what I just ate to prove to myself that this memory of eating did actually happen.
How do you know that the fridge didn't start out empty? And that your stomach didn't start with food?
...I'm sorry but this is getting a little ridiculous even for my free thinking mind.
Quote:No, it means that I don't think that what you've given is really evidence for the proposition "The universe wasn't created three seconds ago with the appearance of age".
And why should a mega young universe be the default view?
Quote:...uh, what? Why would I have to produce evidence for that? I have never claimed that such evidence exists.Great, then it's settled; your argument is a baseless assertion therefore there's no need for me to have to prove it wrong if you can't even show me why it's plausible.
I don't understand how you can rationally hold that view if there's nothing to show for it?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
