RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 26, 2019 at 4:25 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2019 at 4:28 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 26, 2019 at 4:14 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Is that a yes or a no? Does the rule of hasn't = can't hold here or not?Not my song, dude. I've never made this assertion.
Quote:I posit that you can't know what it feels like to hold a cup of hot chocolate, because you haven't answered that question and can only talk around it. True or false?Well, I can verbalize an answer to that question, and you can choose to accept it or discard it. If you want me to prove that drinking hot chocolate is really as I say it is, my best bet is to try and get you to have the same experience, and see if you recognize in your experience the things I was trying to verbalize.
If you still reject it, then I have to walk away.
Your analogy is a poor one, however, because my reason for saying science can't answer certain kinds of questions isn't that it hasn't. It's that I know some things about reality, and about what science is, and I can see that there's a fundamental disconnect.
Now, I've also asserted that there's no good EVIDENCE that Science can answer other kinds of questions, because it hasn't answered similar questions before. This is a response to the positive claim that science is the best (or only) tool for answering some kinds of questions: you'll have to supply evidence that this assertion is true.
As I said at the outset, I take the classical atheist position on the claim that science can answer all questions: you haven't provided me with good evidence that this is true, but I reserve the right to change my mind if good evidence is presented.