Dawkins and Krauss: Krauss dissed again (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, October 09, 2015, 12:20 (3334 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by dhw, Friday, October 09, 2015, 12:43

DAVID: The weakness of his attempts at a philosophic look at science and atheism is wonderfully torn apart by a real philosopher, Ed Fesser:-http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2015/09/15760/-This reminds me of a passage that may or may not be familiar to you:-“Science can only concern itself with the material world as we know it. Science cannot speculate on matters beyond the scope of what can be tried and tested, and so by definition any belief in a non-physical world must be unscientific. But unscientific does not mean unreal or non-existent. There are many things in our lives that transcend the material world as we know it - love, art, music, beauty, premonitions and so on - but more importantly, the tools with which we examine the material world are inadequate. Birds and insects are able to perceive things that we cannot. We are clever enough to devise instruments that hugely enhance our capabilities of perception, but even then, they will only be able to show us that which the human brain is able to perceive. How, then, can we know that there are no other forms of life and being that exist on a totally different plane? A deaf man might argue that because he can hear nothing, sound doesn't exist. This is not to denigrate science. It is simply a denial of the right of science to exclude the possibility of phenomena outside its range. By extension, it is a denial of the right of an atheist to claim that religious faith is unscientific and therefore wrong."-One should perhaps add the comment that such observations neither support nor attack religious faith.