(February 6, 2010 at 11:04 am)Purple Rabbit Wrote: How do you arrive from celestial mechanics at your conclusion that faith goes out the window?It was leo-rcc's premise that we can't know anything for sure like, 'the Sun rising in the morning', therefore we need the persuasion of faith to give us the confidence that Earth will rotate. I don't have this outlook on knowledge, with regards to pondering on absolute certainties, its nothing more than a red herring.
To the best of our knowledge the Earth has rotated for a long time, its physical, it conforms to the laws of physics that govern the universe, thus through empirical evidence and repeatability we can determine the Earth will continue to do so for a long time. As a method of investigation of giving the most consistently reliable results faith is useless. It fails in distinguishing what is true from false within the context of reality and practical knowledge.
I don't have faith, I don't assert truth onto anything that manifests itself until I understand it better through the scientific method.
