(January 26, 2015 at 10:27 am)tantric Wrote: First, understand this statement, which seems to be both true and self-contradictory: There are no absolutes.
True, there are no absolutes. But there are statistical probabilities and and bad claims that never were good data and simply not worth clinging to.
Certainly one could for example claim "Since the future is unknown, snarfwidgets might be found"".
It still would be a claim started on a naked assertion.
And even with something with some reality in it say for example, since I exist and Angelina Jolie exists then this claim is more plausible "I will get a hummer from Angelina Jolie". She is real and I am real, but what is the likelyhood even in that case?
Those thought experiments are still just that.
There certainly is an unknown future. But there are also things we can safely scrap without losing sleep.
I really do not think humanity is in any danger of scraping the idea of any god claim, when our best current evidence is saying it is not required and on top of tons of evidence that humans make them up.
But, even outside god claims, ultimately you still have to test and falsify. That is currently the best tool humans have come up with.
