Lismore wrote:
The only assumptions it makes are the same ones we all use everyday - such as the idea that there is a real world, and has been one in the past. If there are some "assumptions" that you don't think are reasonable, please state them.
Do you believe snow, heated to 40 F a few million years ago, would have melted or stayed frozen? Do you think that rocks dropped a few million years ago would have floated up instead of fallen due to gravity?
Really, which position do you think is more reasonable, that the physical laws worked the same in the past as they do now, given that all evidence and all tests support that they did? Or your idea, that the physical world was different - not just different in some way, but different in the way you want it to have been so as to deny the evidence? It sounds a lot like the definition of insanity to me. - Especially because that position leads directly to nihilism, and the denial of all historical knowledge. How could we know that ships floated 3,000 years ago? Oh, the story of Jonah must be wrong, because ships didn't float back then. How could we know that stars were visible 2,000 years ago? Oh, since they weren't, the story of the magi might be wrong. Soon you are sitting in a room in your house, denying that there is a world out there, or that you were even born.
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The only assumptions it makes are the same ones we all use everyday - such as the idea that there is a real world, and has been one in the past. If there are some "assumptions" that you don't think are reasonable, please state them.
Do you believe snow, heated to 40 F a few million years ago, would have melted or stayed frozen? Do you think that rocks dropped a few million years ago would have floated up instead of fallen due to gravity?
Really, which position do you think is more reasonable, that the physical laws worked the same in the past as they do now, given that all evidence and all tests support that they did? Or your idea, that the physical world was different - not just different in some way, but different in the way you want it to have been so as to deny the evidence? It sounds a lot like the definition of insanity to me. - Especially because that position leads directly to nihilism, and the denial of all historical knowledge. How could we know that ships floated 3,000 years ago? Oh, the story of Jonah must be wrong, because ships didn't float back then. How could we know that stars were visible 2,000 years ago? Oh, since they weren't, the story of the magi might be wrong. Soon you are sitting in a room in your house, denying that there is a world out there, or that you were even born.
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