RE: Scientific method proves order cannot exist w/o intelligence
January 21, 2010 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2010 at 4:38 pm by Purple Rabbit.)
(January 21, 2010 at 10:36 am)rjh4 Wrote: My whole point in the questioning was that I do not think atheism can account for objective truth, only relative truth, and, therefore, self-destructs as a worldview.If atheism should have any ambition to account for objective truth, which I don't think is the case at all since atheism rather is the decline of the claims of others on knowledge of objective truth, it would be in accordance with science here. Please take note of the fact that science claims no objective truth. It only delivers tentative truth. This is a very basic notion you can find in any entry level work on philosophy of science.
But precisely the urge you show here to not settle on anything less than absolute truth and to demand it right now with no intellectual effort on your part at all, precisely that wishfull thinking leads to premature assumption of a god who delivers this all from some skyhook argument that has no evidential proof.
As science shows in practice, frameworks build on relative truth are not worthless at all and do not self-destruct. This is because in real life, the absolute is not what matters but what works good enough is what matters. We don''t have to know all zillion decimal places of pi to be able to make round tyres.
You disqualify yourself with this argument immediately in debate. It means nothing less than that you say that science has self-destructed already. The argument already has exploded in your face.
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
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Christianity is perfect bullshit, christians are not - Purple Rabbit, honouring CS Lewis
Faith is illogical - fr0d0