brian37 Wrote:Wow, you can quote the Bible. Big deal. Muslims quote the Koran but you are not a Muslim. That's called self serving, and quite frankly narcissistic, "Circular reasoning".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
wiki Wrote:Circular reasoning and the problem of induction
Joel Feinberg and Russ Shafer-Landau note that "using the scientific method to judge the scientific method is circular reasoning". Scientists attempt to discover the laws of nature and to predict what will happen in the future, based on those laws. However, per David Hume's problem of induction, science cannot be proven inductively by empirical evidence, and thus science cannot be proven scientifically