RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 26, 2019 at 4:33 pm
(This post was last modified: March 26, 2019 at 4:36 pm by bennyboy.)
(March 26, 2019 at 4:28 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote:Quote it. I've demonstrated explicitly that there are things which science hasn't answered, which I believe it eventually will: specifically, that I believe a cure for cancer in the next century is very likely, even though it hasn't yet been found.(March 26, 2019 at 4:25 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Not my song, dude. I've never made this assertion.You've been making this assertion for pages and pages.
The reason I say science can't answer certain kinds of question isn't that it hasn't-- it's that there's an important REASON why it hasn't, which seems likely to persist forever, due to the nature of reality.
Quote:Nevertheless. I'm going to go ahead with the rule of hasn't = can't and state that you have given just as much "EVIDENCE" that you cannot know and do not know what it feels like to hold a cup of hot chocolate as there is for any of your own claims about some specific means of empirical investigation.This doesn't bother me much. I'm not arguing that any other way in which I might gain or express knowledge is better than science. I'm saying that there are some questions which science can't answer, and some for which there's no evidence it can answer.
Quote:Should I simply walk away from you and your many equivalent assertions?If you like.