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From: ee@datcon.co.uk (Eddie Edwards)
Subject: Re: Is there a spiritual force etc.?
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Arthur Flexer (arthur@ai.univie.ac.at) wrote:

: >Surely this is just an attempt to build theories on top of empirical evidence?
: >There's just less evidence to build on.

: As I said, ther is not only less but zero evidence.

You're missing my point - I didn't mean evidence to support a theory, but
evidence to generate a theory, of which there is just 'the sun seems to come
up every day'.

: >For instance, every scientist I have met holds the implicit belief in the
: >consistency of the universe, specifically the temporal invariance of the laws
: >of physics in one region of space.  You can argue, quite rightly, that if you
: >didn't keep to this assumption then science would get nowhere - but that does
: >not change the fact that it *is* an assumption.  If you put your hand on your

: Yes, but it is an assumption based on observations than can be made every single
: day.

Of course it is, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an assumption.  You
say that science is superior to religion because it offers explanations.  What
explanation can science offer, or ever offer, for this observed phenomenon -
namely, the apparent consistency of the universe?

--
Eddie xxx

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