(February 19, 2015 at 1:53 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Ok, you have billions of people making all sorts of competing claims as to the nature of reality. So to those reading this, what is the best way settle disputes in competing claims? (This is more for the theist to answer, atheists already know the answer).
This is the essence of Peter Boghossian's "Manual for Creating Atheists". If the religious have a good, working process for gaining knowledge about their sky daddy, why don't other competing claims come to the same conclusion? What are good and not-so-good ways to determine the truth of a claim?
It's like Chinese medicine - no agreement among practitioners on the required treatment or efficacy. No double-blind trials, no data, no nothing. The instant they did have that, it would become real medicine.
