RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 21, 2019 at 11:08 pm
(This post was last modified: March 21, 2019 at 11:13 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 21, 2019 at 10:54 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You're begging the question of there being any answer or any question that is "clearly metaphysical" to begin with. Again, metaphysics may be an empty set.
The advantages of being agnostic abound. It may be that it's turtles all the way down, or it may not be. I'm pretty comfortable with not pretending to know which might be the case.
But science is very much about observing features OF a particular framework-- this Universe. So we can start with a simple question: do we have evidence that science can transcend this one level of reality to explain why it exists rather than not? And the answer is-- no.
Let's take the God idea, and an appeal for evidence. If some but not all people could walk on water, would that be evidence for God? I'd say no. What if bushes could talk and burn? I'd say no. What if one man could raise his arms and part a mighty sea? I'd still say no. That's because no amount of material interactions are evidence for the immaterial, because material and immaterial are unlike, and evidence for one hasn't been demonstrated to be meaningful evidence for the other.