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" honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It’s a statement, a categorical statement that exp

" honestly think atheism is inconsistent with the scientific method. What I mean by that is, what is atheism? It’s a statement, a categorical statement that expresses belief in nonbelief. “I don’t believe even though I have no evidence for or against, simply I don’t believe.” Period. It’s a declaration. But in science we don’t really do declarations. We say, “Okay, you can have a hypothesis, you have to have some evidence against or for that.” " Oh dear, he should have checked out "Russell's teapot"* * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot

asark 8y ago
This seems easy to reducio to "you can't disbelieve anything you're not empirically measuring right this second!" without even going too far down the epistemological rabbit hole. "Dude the sun just disappeared! I know you still see light but it's coming from a different source entirely, that appeared so seamlessly that you didn't notice the shift!". No. No, I don't believe you. No, I don't feel compelled to check just this second. Or ever, really.