RE: Question for atheists...
February 19, 2013 at 9:43 pm
(This post was last modified: February 19, 2013 at 9:44 pm by Ryantology.)
(February 19, 2013 at 2:08 pm)BeeDeePee Wrote: They are not metaphysical today, when scientists can use a lot of methods to test whether they are true or not. But they were metaphysical in the past when it was not possible.
Events do not suddenly stop being metaphysical and start being physical. The events you describe as 'metaphysical' were really just physical phenomena all along, and we simply didn't understand them. This is why I dismiss any appeal to metaphysics in debates of this nature.
Untestable hypotheses are good for nothing more than discussion fodder. It's silly, not to mention pointless, to resort to one and insist that it is worth more than that. It is like you're playing baseball, and a team which is entirely incapable of getting even a single hit insists on playing one extra inning after another, intending to stop only once an inning ends with them in the lead. You just get a game which will last for an infinite amount of time.
