(August 16, 2014 at 2:35 am)Michael Wrote: What this reveals is perhaps the importance of presuppositions. Start with materialistic presuppositions and you will, unsurprisingly, reach a materialistic conclusion. Start with presuppositions that allow for the metaphysical, that allow for God, and you will allow room for other conclusions. Both are internally consistent. Each of us must follow the path that is most persuasive to us.
Yeah, except for one of those paths will lead to actual, predictable results on which you could base your decisions. It yields something useful.
The other is a descent into nonfalsifiable madness, which can yield no useful predictions for the really real world. I mean, yeah, maybe I have a soul, and if I fail to do X, something bad will happen to it.
Maybe there's an invisible leprechaun that's going to fleem my floom with floum. Wouldn't that suck? I don't want my fleem floomed! I'd better pay homage to the leprechaun since I can't prove it's wrong with my materialistic bias!
Michael, no one cares about an infinite amount of non-falsifiability. They only care about the one particular brand they made up/were told as children.
