RE: Accepting/Rejecting "Atheism" as a label.
January 27, 2013 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2013 at 5:00 pm by Golbez.)
There seem to be too many hangups really to proceed head on with your post. So let me understand what you mean with certain terms. Could I ask that you define for me what is meant by:
Truth
Knowledge
Facts
Evidence (again)
Existence
And what do you think about the laws of physics? Once we understand the mathematical expressions in which the world operates under, say for gravity or motion, do you think those can be radically violated in our day to day experiences? (So avoiding for the moment things like Pulsars, which are fascinating freaks of nature.) I can't begin to understand your opening gambit, that everything anyone knows is incorrect. Ironically, that sounds like something you claim to know. And it surely sounds incorrect. But maybe I can't know that, because then it would be incorrect. So I'll just have to "feel it" then in my gut. And now it's true...
EDIT - Sorry, wanted to add these terms as well:
Hypothesis
Conjecture
And I thought of another question. How do people learn information about our world through the process of science? What does that process entail? Basically - what is the scientific method?
Truth
Knowledge
Facts
Evidence (again)
Existence
And what do you think about the laws of physics? Once we understand the mathematical expressions in which the world operates under, say for gravity or motion, do you think those can be radically violated in our day to day experiences? (So avoiding for the moment things like Pulsars, which are fascinating freaks of nature.) I can't begin to understand your opening gambit, that everything anyone knows is incorrect. Ironically, that sounds like something you claim to know. And it surely sounds incorrect. But maybe I can't know that, because then it would be incorrect. So I'll just have to "feel it" then in my gut. And now it's true...
EDIT - Sorry, wanted to add these terms as well:
Hypothesis
Conjecture
And I thought of another question. How do people learn information about our world through the process of science? What does that process entail? Basically - what is the scientific method?
Religious but open minded about the arguments of atheists? You may have spent your whole life learning about the arguments for religion. May I present to you 10 segmented hours for the case against it?