Re: The Cosmological Argument

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:20:03 -0700 (PDT), Bill <bil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in talk.origins:

On Jun 13, 7:33 pm, Garamond Lethe <cartographi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:44:15 -0700, Bill wrote:

<big snip>

There are a great many things for which no empirical evidence exists or
is even possible, yet we are convinced of their existence just the same.
Almost all of human intellectual reality exists only in the human mind
as ephemeral and insubstantial thought, desire, impulse, etc. and are
not empirical.

I'm aware of several textbooks and a couple dozen peer-reviewed journals'
worth of evidence to the contrary. What evidence can you offer for your
assertion?

I don't deny that there are those who believe that everything that
goes on in the human mind, including our profoundest thoughts, are
fully explained by electro-chemical events within the brain. Someone
in this thread already made that point. That opinion does exist and
some find it persuasive but. alas, it's just another of those
speculations masquerading as knowledge. There's a difference between
an hypothesis and fact. A fact has been tested and verified, an
hypothesis has not.

The advantage of that explanation is that it doesn't rely on magic.

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