Blind faith and evolution

[bennyboy]

I think a good case can be made for idealism. If you are a physical monist, you have to do pretty elaborate (read: bullshit) jumping jacks to explain how actual subjective experience is a physical thing, since it is exactly not what is meant by "physical." In an idealistic universe, there's no such conflict: every physical thing, and every consistent pattern (i.e. the ones science deals with), still makes perfect sense as an idea, since that's how we experience everything anyway.

For example, we normally study the motion of objects, and ascribe momentum as the property of an object: the spaceship has a momentum of _____. However, the math can also be seeing as UNDERLYING the motion of the objects, i.e. that the objects are manifestations of the math. And yet the math cannot be seen, except as it is expressed as the apparent properties of objects.

This underlying math is called physics, but what underlies it? It is necessary what that can be seen cannot underly itself. Therefore something unseen underlies it. That's metaphysics. And it's necessarily real.

Now, that doesn't mean Sky Daddy. But it does mean that observation as a means of determining absolute truth necessarily fails. Science cannot determine, ever, absolute truth.