From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Oct 27 2004 - 13:45:30 BST
msh wrote to Erin:
> So, say, when someone tells you they've witnessed a resurrection,
> this doesn't mean that it's possible to bring dead people back to
> life, and a rational empiricist philosophy is by no means committed
> to such an idea. The report of a resurrection does not constitute
> empirical evidence of a resurrection. Rather, it might be a starting point
> for further rational and empirical investigation, which would include the
> real empirical evidence of of what happens to human bodies after death, and
> the logical argument, supported by empirical evidence, that its impossible
> to reactivate a human brain after the brain has physically disintegrated.
Note the underlying presumption based on faith that only repeatable
phenomena can be considered valid. Is it any wonder that science cannot
explain how life emerged from the lifeless and mind from the mindless?
Also note the absoluteness in the claim "it's impossible." What happened
to science's vaunted "provisional" attribute?
Platt
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