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now lets your wife suffers a miscarriage roughly 2 weeks into the pregnancy. Now do you think that would be your child that died or just a bunch of cells?
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Bunch of cells ofcourse.
Sure the wife would be upset at losing the possiblilty of having a child at that point in time but 2 weeks in ofcouse its nothing more than some jelly shit. She may even feel that a 'baby' had died, I could even console her as such. But the difference between you and me is that I would know better due to medical science whereas you reject the evidence to satisfy your own persecutive beliefs.
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Science is great I believe in it, but NOTHING I repeat NOTHING can be proven with certainty, which means you have to have a certain degree of belief in everything.
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This is a completely facile and pointless argument. For the purposes of a rational debate Being 'certain' is an empirical measure , If i hit myself in the head with a hammer im
certain that it will hurt. I know it will hurt and if i smack my self another 1000 times it will really fucking hurt. It doesnt require belief to know so, in the least not belief on the scale of bringing god into the equation. Science provides us with an answer why it hurts. God which by human experience necessarily is an act of faith does not.It is such aribtairy and out of proportion belief systems that are required to be purged from philisopical discussion.
Furthermore one shouldnt consider lack of certainty the sole domain of belief systems. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is just one of many natural and physical processes that can be measured considered and deduced. Uncertaintly can be rationally addressed with far more rigour in science than it can be in faith.