[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

Alexander Nekvasil a8504902 at unet.univie.ac.at
Sat Jun 11 19:37:02 PDT 2005


Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes:

...


> The virtue of science is that it has made it unnecessary for us to
> have any hypothesis concerning God or gods or goddesses. Science
> doesn't seek to disprove the existence of God or gods or goddesses,
> though it can and (if called upon) does disprove specific miraculous
> acts attributed to God or gods or goddesses. God or gods or goddesses
> -- and hypotheses concerning their existence or lack thereof -- are
> merely irrelevant to science, so they are not included in it. It is
> science's lack of interest in God -- rather than any argument against
> God's existence any scientist makes -- that really outrages theists
> who are not content to reduce God to a matter of ethics.

The idea is that there should be a relation between the individual and the universal. Failing this, we are left with the relation of particular and general. The former is religious, the latter needs the police.

cheers AN



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