RE: An atheists guide to reality
March 9, 2014 at 12:51 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2014 at 1:00 pm by Mystic.)
(March 9, 2014 at 12:44 pm)rasetsu Wrote:(March 9, 2014 at 12:36 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It's not necessary to have detailed knowledge of something as opposed to a simplified form of knowledge for it to be either a good explanation or useful explanation.
As I've already explained in great detail, yes it is. Since you have no way of showing that your explanation is likely true, it's just an assertion. That which can be asserted without evidence or explanation, can be dismissed without evidence or explanation. People can see what happens when they do or don't eat food. We can't see what it would mean to have a spirit and for that spirit to have the property of meaning. Therefore your analogy fails. Our determining the use of food is totally unlike your determination of the properties of the spirit. It's just making up untestable shit. It's a "god of the gaps" explanation. You're just hiding all the work of explaining in a mysterious MacGuffin that is neither detectable nor testable.
Who says we can't see we have a spirit let alone what it means to have a spirit? Even this is true, it doesn't refute what I said because your argument was we need detailed explanations. I simply stated we can have simplified explanations without the details, and they can explain something and be useful.
If I do the math right, I think you moved goal posts about three times now.