(August 29, 2012 at 2:03 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Although I appreciate your honesty, you do hold a very frustrating position.
I'll bet you don't apply this to any other aspect of your life, or any other supernatural claim. It is an amazing feat of mental compartmentalization that you are able to do this.
Shiva. Bronze Age tribal deity. No evidence or rational justification to believe he exists. I don't believe it. Check.
Ahura Mazda. Bronze Age tribal deity. No evidence or rational justification to believe he exists. I don't believe it. Check.
Yahweh. Bronze Age tribal deity. No evidence or rational justification to believe he exists. I don't believe it. Che.....
Suppose there were a Bronze Age religion that claimed that certain entities existed in the sky that devoured light and crushed everything--ala a black hole. Let's say that Bob lived back then, but didn't have any tools for measuring things like red-light shifts and so forth, so he couldn't actually detect the presence of a black hole.
Should Bob believe in the existence of black holes, which actually do exist? Or should he refuse to believe in their existence?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
