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Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed

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Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
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RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed
September 3, 2008 at 12:14 am
What I find humorous is that the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy doesn't mention God once in it's lengthy article on The Problem of Induction. This guy is simply talking out of his arse. Science uses a mixture of deduction and induction anyway. A large sample of results are obtained, in which the deduction is made that X is happening in all samples. The induction method is that since X is happening over such a broad range of samples, and no sample has yet contradicted it, X must be valid for all possible samples.

No, it isn't perfect. Does it work? Yes. It is the closest method we will ever get to scientific knowledge, other than being omniscient.
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Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed - by Eilonnwy - September 2, 2008 at 10:05 pm
RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed - by Tiberius - September 3, 2008 at 12:14 am
RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed - by Boulat - September 3, 2008 at 4:50 am
RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed - by Jason Jarred - September 8, 2008 at 1:44 am
RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed - by Eilonnwy - September 8, 2008 at 11:28 am
RE: Van Til's Challenge: Unbelief Exposed - by Tiberius - September 8, 2008 at 5:15 am

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