People have no access to objective truth. The best we can do is assume some logic in the perceptions we make. Burning oneself once from fire or other heat source should suffice as a strong indication to avoid direct contact with hot pans.
The only criterion is what works best to make models of reality. That is the principle that made the medical equipment in the hospital possible. That principle has brought us sewery, laptops, medicins, cars, lunar landers and mars probes, knowledge of DNA, proteins, cells, cancer therapies, agriculture techniques,....
What are the goodies of several thousand of years of religion. What knowledge has it brought us, what pain has it relieved, what diseases have been cured by it, what problems have been solved by it?
The only criterion is what works best to make models of reality. That is the principle that made the medical equipment in the hospital possible. That principle has brought us sewery, laptops, medicins, cars, lunar landers and mars probes, knowledge of DNA, proteins, cells, cancer therapies, agriculture techniques,....
What are the goodies of several thousand of years of religion. What knowledge has it brought us, what pain has it relieved, what diseases have been cured by it, what problems have been solved by it?
"I'm like a rabbit suddenly trapped, in the blinding headlights of vacuous crap" - Tim Minchin in "Storm"
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0
