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The ethics and morality of Pascal's wager
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<blockquote data-quote="Silmarien" data-source="post: 74222185" data-attributes="member: 395596"><p>How does that relate to the term "falsifiable"? Nothing about the lifetime of Siddharta Gautama can be subjected to controlled experimentation and shown to be incorrect.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I wouldn't say that divine miracle claims are at all absent from the modern record. The Catholic Church certainly still makes such assertions, so whether you want to believe that these things are happening or not, they haven't actually disappeared from the record.</p><p></p><p>I also wouldn't immediately assume that people who claim to witness miracles are telling lies. Between confirmation bias, the way we can rewrite memories to fit expectations, and other psychological factors, there are better naturalistic approaches to miracles out there than the assumption that people are just making things up.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I am not really sure what you're trying to say. What metaphysical position has been demonstrated to be true? What is problematic about humanity approaching metaphysics via religion?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>How so? The wager is really just a stand in for a benefit-risk assessment; it doesn't actually require any specific interpretation of Christianity. How precisely you would formulate the wager depends on your theology, not the reverse.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silmarien, post: 74222185, member: 395596"] How does that relate to the term "falsifiable"? Nothing about the lifetime of Siddharta Gautama can be subjected to controlled experimentation and shown to be incorrect. I wouldn't say that divine miracle claims are at all absent from the modern record. The Catholic Church certainly still makes such assertions, so whether you want to believe that these things are happening or not, they haven't actually disappeared from the record. I also wouldn't immediately assume that people who claim to witness miracles are telling lies. Between confirmation bias, the way we can rewrite memories to fit expectations, and other psychological factors, there are better naturalistic approaches to miracles out there than the assumption that people are just making things up. I am not really sure what you're trying to say. What metaphysical position has been demonstrated to be true? What is problematic about humanity approaching metaphysics via religion? How so? The wager is really just a stand in for a benefit-risk assessment; it doesn't actually require any specific interpretation of Christianity. How precisely you would formulate the wager depends on your theology, not the reverse. [/QUOTE]
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