Re: Forwarded from Siddhartha Chatterjee

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> mh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/03/01 01:26PM >>>

Jurriaan Bendien <j.bendien@xxxxxxxxxx> writes

>Science is a perpetual, neverending contest between
>rival theories and the data. It is almost never absolutely "foolproof
>certain" that any particular theory has definitely won.

What is 'foolproof certain', though, to many on this list (and from
scientific point of view!) is ontological materialism and atheism.

(((((((((((

CB: To many on the list, atheism and probably ontological materialism is an a
posteriori presumption, which we place the burden on believers to rebut, but we 
don't
say it is not rebuttable , so it is not "foolproof certain".