RE: Must all be proven?
October 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2009 at 5:38 pm by Violet.)
When you see the red and green squiggles, please right click on them 
Anyway, on to the topic:
Let us say that I have a disease in my foot... and I am awaiting amputation of said foot. The doctor's assistant brings me into the operating room. When I open the door, the doctor greets me with a chainsaw in hand. I require evidence that it works before I am letting him saw my foot off (It doesn't work btw...).
So yes, we do require a justification before we believe anything. A justification could be anything from "Why would you lie to me?" to "Because I want to." The justification I would need for a doctor to saw off my foot with a chainsaw... is hard scientific evidence. I want to know how it works, what he is doing, why it is safe, and some scientific facts regarding the use of chainsaws in operations. That is why we need evidence to believe in gods: because we would essentially be sawing our feet off with crude and barbaric devices... with no sound justifications to back it.
Evolution I leave to another You look like good exercise material
Anyway, on to the topic:Let us say that I have a disease in my foot... and I am awaiting amputation of said foot. The doctor's assistant brings me into the operating room. When I open the door, the doctor greets me with a chainsaw in hand. I require evidence that it works before I am letting him saw my foot off (It doesn't work btw...).
So yes, we do require a justification before we believe anything. A justification could be anything from "Why would you lie to me?" to "Because I want to." The justification I would need for a doctor to saw off my foot with a chainsaw... is hard scientific evidence. I want to know how it works, what he is doing, why it is safe, and some scientific facts regarding the use of chainsaws in operations. That is why we need evidence to believe in gods: because we would essentially be sawing our feet off with crude and barbaric devices... with no sound justifications to back it.
Evolution I leave to another
You look like good exercise material
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
