RE: I can feel your anger
July 9, 2012 at 3:42 am
(This post was last modified: July 9, 2012 at 3:44 am by Selliedjoup.)
(July 8, 2012 at 2:28 pm)Napoleon Wrote: [quote='CliveStaples' pid='307549' dateline='1341760317']
But we aren't debating what the factual state of affairs is. We're talking about how and why we have certain beliefs--in particular, if the standard for belief in p is that there is evidence for p, why should I believe in evidentialism? Where is the evidence for it?
Evidence is not a belief system
Get that into your head.
You are suggesting that to use evidence you need evidence to back up the fact you need evidence.
This is plain stupidity. You don't take evidence based on a leap of faith, you take it because it is what is used to discern the world around you.
You can get into a philosobabble debate about it all you want, but unless you come up with some other way of a verifiable, testable, reasonable and logical system of interpreting the world around you, then you don't have a leg to stand on, and are frankly talking in complete bollocks and hypotheticals.
Do you actually think that it's being proposed that "Evidence is a belief system" or are you just being disingenuous so you don't have to answer the question?
Why do you think that evidence must be available? If there is some sort of creator, it is inconceivable that it would not insert itself inself into one its creations?
