Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:28:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: "Neal E. Westfall" <nwestfal@directvinternet.com> Cc: Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? Message-ID: <3D756FD1.1BA06101@mindspring.com> References: <20020903144201.Q66978-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan>
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"Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > Some questions are proven from the impossibility of the contrary. If > a particular worldview does not provide the preconditions of rationality, > it should be rejected. For example, the fact that naturalism undermines > the ability to know whether one's views are true or false eliminates > naturalism as a viable worldview. In fact, if naturalism is false its > opposite, supernaturalism must be true. Incorrect. Naturalism allows one to know *if* their views are false. It just doesn't permit one to know *that* one's views are true, or merely a useful approximation of truth which may be later disproven by future collection of empirical evidence. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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