(November 8, 2012 at 9:19 pm)The_Germans_are_coming Wrote: I acknowlege that I dont know what started the Universe and that I cant know it currently. But! I have the option of aquireing that knowlege through scientific inquiry.
Must I paint the boy a colorfull picture to understand?
Then explain a plausible causal agency that fits the necessary criteria of any sufficient agency ( non-physical, timeless, spaceless, immaterial with enormous capacity) consistent with Atheism?
Explain exactly how physical science (empiricism) can explain the cause of physics?
The very notion is absurd. You may as well expect your metal detector to detect how to manufacture metal detectors.
Science is a very limited endeavor. Most truth cannot be accessed by science.