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Originally Posted by daking
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.
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Since you only have experience with one side of the situation ("the hammer will hurt"), how can you profess to know that the pain caused does not require belief? The problem that I have with everyone sucking the proverbial cock of science is that many of them have had it in their mouth for so long that they don't realise they are capable of taking it out. Has science become so ingrained into your consciousness that you actually think that there is no belief in it required on your part? That everything in science is simply self-evident?