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Charles Darwin's Sacred Cause

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Salamantis2/01/2009 5:21:31 pm PST

re: #199 RightKlik

No. Some questions can’t be answered by physics. Some questions can never be answered.

Just because there are things that we don’t know, and things that in princilpe we cannot know, is no reason to dismiss or ignore the fact that there are many things that we pragmatically DO know, and many other things that we theoretically CAN know. But these things are confined to the realm of the physical; metaphysical contentions cannot be known to be either true or false in the absence of empirical evidence, which cannot be supplied for metaphysical contentions. Metaphysical contentions must either be believed in or not. That distinction, evidence-supported knowledge vs. evidence-bereft belief, is what distinguishes empirical science from dogmatic faith.