Bryan Cross wrote: "Would you say the same thing to God? If so, then you
think God cannot show
solipsism to be false (and therefore does not know whether He created
anything or merely dreamed He did). If not, then you think that solipsism
can (in some sense) be refuted. Likewise with YEC. If you believe that it
cannot *in any sense* be refuted, and yet you refuse to believe it, then
you don't care about truth. For what cannot *in any sense* be refuted is
nothing other than the truth. You are free to define "refute" as
"scientifically refute", but then claiming that something "CANNOT be
refuted" [your caps] is clearly excessive excitement and overblown
advertising about something trivially true to those of us aware of the
limitations of science (i.e. all of us, I presume)."
Whatever you say, Bryan. I continue to maintain
that solipsm, as well as Last Tuesdayism, as well as the fact that
little blue but invisible and undetectible elfs control the
laws of gravity and all such positions to be fundementally
not refutable, and yet both not useful and in most cases, perhaps
all cases, to be nonsense. The fact that I think the elfs are
not refutable is a philosophical statement and says nothing about whether
or not I cars about truth.
Sorry for misspelling your name on the last post. I hate to do that.
Peace
Burgy
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