[extropy-chat] Re: John Wright Finds God

[Damien Broderick]

At 11:16 AM 12/9/2004 -0800, Mike Lorrey wrote:

> > Many of these
> > kinds of experiences seem to have been overwhelming, apodictically
> > persuasive, even life-changing, and utterly at odds with each other

>The list of things that science has not been able to sufficiently
>explain is very long. The human mind is at the top of that list. That
>does not mean that the human mind does not exist. Ergo, the atheist
>argument of scientific falsifiability falls on its face.

`Utterly at odds with each other' is a very general criterion of the 
unintelligibility or incredibility of at least one of the competing 
explanations, however thrilling the experience was, and is hardly limited 
to canons of scientific falsifiability. If L. Ron Hubbard's world view is 
right, the Pope's is not. I suppose it's even barely conceivable that 
neither of them might be correct.

Damien Broderick