(October 4, 2013 at 2:45 am)bennyboy Wrote: @Lemonvariable72
I don't think you got the point. The point is that we may have evolved with a SYSTEMIC inability to perceive or comprehend certain kinds of information. Appealing to other humans for confirmation isn't going to do anything.
For example, it may be that there are magical fairies all around us. However, they have no bearing on our survival, so we have not evolved any mechanism for perceiving them. If worms could communicate, they would uniformly confirm to each other that rainbows do not exist, since they have no way to infer the existence of light.
More due to the limits of their reason than their senses, as far as the existence of light goes. They can certainly feel heat and feel that the surface is only exposed to it at certain times. They might be able to infer light, or at least radiant heat (which is a form of light), although without manipulatory limbs to construct devices to investigate it further, they might never get to rainbows.
Fortunately, we DO have manipulatory limbs to construct devices that have capabilities beyond the limitations of our senses. There are many things we have a systemic inability to perceive that we've discovered through our instruments. That we have no way of knowing how much we're missing doesn't doesn't mean a working hypothesis of naturalism is irrational.
