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I don't believe in God, I believe in Gravity

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Dogmafood
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11-25-2013 8:09 AM 		Reply to: Message 613 by ringo
11-22-2013 10:53 AM

Re: It's All In your Mind
What's the difference between not needing to make any more adjustments and not being able to make any more adjustments?
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Immense. It is the same as not needing to add air to your tires and not being able to.
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You're over-generalizing. Some religious minds refuse to adjust some faulty premises. "The" religious mind just doesn't stop when it runs out of verifiable premises.
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The difference begins when we stop verifying the premises.
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Dogmafood
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11-28-2013 7:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 675 by Straggler
11-27-2013 1:31 PM

Re: What happened to methodological naturalism?
All knowledge, most definitley scientific knowlegde, is both tenative and fallible.
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Are you sure?
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This reminds me of a quote from Richard Feynman who said something like
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'We can never know that we are right. We can only be sure when we are wrong.'
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It made me laugh because I thought that surely we could know that we are right about what we know to be wrong.
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