RE: Atheism Undermines Knowledge
May 6, 2013 at 3:13 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2013 at 3:45 pm by Whateverist.)
(May 6, 2013 at 2:38 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 6, 2013 at 11:47 am)MysticKnight Wrote: I think what ChadWooters is trying to say, is without God, properly basic beliefs cannot be justified, including induction? Am I right?Right on, bro!
But are we entitled to be justified in our most basic beliefs? I mean is their good reason to think we are capable of this?
Afterall, our capacity for reason evolved in the pursuit of dinner, not in pursuit of 'the truth'. Perhaps it is not in our nature to require justification for belief. Certainly the unconscious part of our mind is not concerned with this. Since our conscious mind is a later update of a brain which did not require justification, why should we think there will always be justification for everything we know. Some beliefs which you are calling "basic" would likely be exactly those which we most likely would have learned to recognize before we were fully conscious and before we had the capacity for discursive reasoning.
This line of argument you want to pursue relies on the premise that everything we believe should be justifiable. But that may well not be true.