RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 21, 2019 at 9:26 am
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 9:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
IDK what's going on when Bel makes claims like that..in my experience they rely on a misunderstanding of empiricism...but aristotle, for his part, was opining and writing about a set of explicitly empirical things and attempting to explain natural phenomena when he formed that argument. He was one of the earliest naturalists. It's effectively certain that he'd have been (or wanted to be) a biologist or a physicist had he lived today. That he'd use our improved tools. Perhaps he wouldn't have thought that eels spontaneously generated out of mud...or any of the other equally hilarious things he dropped the ball on through no specific fault of his own.
He'd certainly be rolling over in his grave if he saw how poorly used his musings were by contemporary religion. The same goes for pretty much any philosopher of classical antiquity.
He'd certainly be rolling over in his grave if he saw how poorly used his musings were by contemporary religion. The same goes for pretty much any philosopher of classical antiquity.
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