From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 3 19:29:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24F5D37B400 for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D876643E6E for ; Tue, 3 Sep 2002 19:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0171.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.171] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17mPvC-00064A-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:29:34 -0700 Message-ID: <3D756FD1.1BA06101@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 19:28:33 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Neal E. Westfall" Cc: Dave Hayes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: <20020903144201.Q66978-100000@Tolstoy.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Neal E. Westfall" wrote: > Some questions are proven from the impossibility of the contrary. If > a particular worldview does not provide the preconditions of rationality, > it should be rejected. For example, the fact that naturalism undermines > the ability to know whether one's views are true or false eliminates > naturalism as a viable worldview. In fact, if naturalism is false its > opposite, supernaturalism must be true. Incorrect. Naturalism allows one to know *if* their views are false. It just doesn't permit one to know *that* one's views are true, or merely a useful approximation of truth which may be later disproven by future collection of empirical evidence. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message