(April 25, 2015 at 3:56 am)Red Economist Wrote: That's not a problem. I think you may find a lot of atheists take it for granted that science is right and so may not be open to understanding the philosophical background. Once you start walking away from Science and into philosophy, the debate becomes much more open as it is possible to discuss how something can be considered true, what evidence matters and what constitutes 'proof' for an idea.
p.s. I'm not a scientist. my knowledge of natural science is fairly limited beyond a high school/secondary school level, but the philosophy of science has been of interest as an atheist.
Science is as right as we can make it with available evidence and is the only means we have to dispassionately discover reality.
Philosophy can be interesting but to get to the truth scientific methods must be used.
By the way I distrust the term "natural science" there is only science.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
