RE: If
December 18, 2014 at 9:36 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2014 at 9:36 am by Tonus.)
I never referred to Sherman or Sacks, I assume you are thinking of Surgenator.
The rest of your answer does not address what I am saying: that you admit that you cannot produce tangible evidence for your beliefs, and therefore you are in no position to determine if another person's beliefs --defended in the same manner-- are correct or not. If everyone's "third eye" detected the spiritual world in the same way and found the same things, you would have a basis for your claims, but that's obviously not the case, and you don't even pretend that it is. You say that we can only know by practicing, but if our practice leads us to a different conclusion, who is right and who is wrong?
The rest of your answer does not address what I am saying: that you admit that you cannot produce tangible evidence for your beliefs, and therefore you are in no position to determine if another person's beliefs --defended in the same manner-- are correct or not. If everyone's "third eye" detected the spiritual world in the same way and found the same things, you would have a basis for your claims, but that's obviously not the case, and you don't even pretend that it is. You say that we can only know by practicing, but if our practice leads us to a different conclusion, who is right and who is wrong?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould