(February 13, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Lek Wrote: In relationship to knowing everything about the universe, I'd say if the ancients knew 1%, we know 1.1%.
Don't knock the 0.1%, then; on your scale, that's still quite a lot of information. And it comes with a set of formal logical rules and the scientific method, which only accelerated our ability to gain more knowledge.
Quote:The fact that people don't believe the same thing about God is evidence that there really is a "god sense". If we all believed the same thing, you could reason that we were all indoctrinated to believe in a god.
Not believing in the same thing is proof of god, but if everyone believed in the same god, you'd be arguing that such a unified belief could only come from something objectively real. Stop pretending, Lek: we all know you're going to twist this to get to the god conclusion no matter what anyone says.
As to indoctrination, no, I wouldn't claim that. Not unless there was actual evidence that that were the case. See, I need things to be justified, before I say them.
Quote:How do know that there is "endless waste" in nature? We don't know the purpose of everything in nature. We haven't discovered everything about nature.
So in the absence of that knowledge, you're just going to assume that everything in nature has a purpose, presumably because it leads to the conclusion you want to be true?

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