(May 5, 2013 at 3:12 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: My problem is not with atheism itself, but physical reduction. I think bridging the gap between mind and body is a serious philosophical issue. The mind-body problem still leaves something to explain. That is what I meant about undermining knowledge. You guys have stopped inquiry well before the reach of reason. You stance is not "I don't know" but rather "I do not care to know." A small part of the dilemma in the induction problem. You have given up and pretend that nothing more needs to be explained.
It seems you have confused the lack of a willingness to consider an unsupported, wildly speculative hypothesis with apathy towards the question. The supernatural must be ruled out until it can be demonstrated to exist, and a lack of a natural understanding of a process is not evidence for the supernatural. Unless you can demonstrate that a natural explanation is impossible, the supernatural must be dismissed.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
