Re: Tom Kratman at Baen -- cringeworthy?

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:59:05 -0800 (PST), Herr Oberst <nrvlaw@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Jan 7, 4:49?pm, "David V. Loewe, Jr" <davelo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7 Jan 2008 14:16:38 -0500, wdst...@xxxxxxxxx (William December





Starr) wrote:
"David V. Loewe, Jr" <davelo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
wdst...@xxxxxxxxx (William December Starr) wrote:

It seems pretty simple:

"Do you believe in the truth of professed facts regarding the
objective nature of reality, where no supporting objective
evidence exists? ?Yes/no?"

How about "Do you believe there is some explanation behind the
fact that virtually every physical constant or number is set up to
favor the formation of life?"

I think that there does, by definition, exist an explanation for
any event, even if it's merely "that's just the way it happened to
happen." ?The problem is when someone believes, without supporting,
objective, evidence, that a particular proposed explanation is correct.

That's why it's called faith.
--
"No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who
?does not want to adopt a rational attitude."
? ? Sir Karl Popper- Hide quoted text -

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You know, I'm not all that religious (even though the current project
has religion at its core), but I keep running into this "absence of
evidence is evidence of absence" proposition. On its face it simply
goes past logic. That's half the problem. The other half is that
there is no absence of "evidence;" there's lots of evidence. What
there isn't is abolute _proof_, where evidence and proof are not quite
the same.

Well the evidence as far as I'm concerned, suggests that the universe
is a pretty damn hostile place to life for the most part.
.

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