RE: reason vs faith vs reality
July 26, 2013 at 9:22 am
(This post was last modified: July 26, 2013 at 9:25 am by wandering soul.)
(July 26, 2013 at 4:26 am)max-greece Wrote: The strange thing is that there are believers in all variants of religion that will claim their belief to be rational and empirically verifiable - with countless others to back up their opinion.
I would argue that this necessitates accepting that rational and empirically verifiable does indeed vary from one individual to another. William Craig Lane is a good example of someone who believes all the above about his own arguments.
Yes. And that is because they are selecting a different data set to verify and a different set of well-established mental, conceptual, and physical tools to analyze and verify the observations, theories and conclusions.
i'm not talking about the average Christian here - or any Christian as they have not developed this type of deliberate, disciplined level of experimentation and verification by a multiplicity of persons following the precise procedures to reach the results.
The data set examined and observed, the tools used to observe, manipulate, test, analyze and confirm and the theories proposed and studies are not the material world with which the sciences engage so effectively and coherently. But the process is the same and the conclusions have been over time consistently reached.
having passed through many states of believing I was right I have come to the place of finding "rightness" rather irrelevant to the project of becoming human
