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  • Lausten replied to the topic Why the need for certainty ? in the forum Religion and Secularism 5 years, 5 months ago

    My hope for anything productive is pretty much gone, and as others here will tell you, I have a lot of that. I believe the future of humanity depends not on political movements or ā€œmoon-shotā€ type investments, but on a significant number of people learning to get along in this modern world where there is a church of every domination in most major cities and Neo-Nazis get their coffee from a woman in a hijab.

    Let’s say I’m wrong, hypothetically of course. Should you continue to tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about? How does that forward the conversation? I’ve said that your basic point, the one about how science can only talk about physical things, is wrong. If I’m wrong, you should be able to explain how I’m wrong. Saying it’s just obvious, or the only possible answer is not explaining.

    Any other discussion about the meaning of probabilities or whatever will never get off the ground without dealing with that first.