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@danieldennett "if we didn’t know what was hiding out there, who’s to say there isn’t a divine creator[?]" or 3 of them & really big rabbit

@danieldennett @NewYorker a hypothesis is in some measure an act of faith. Praxis is an act of faith, what if you're wrong?

.@danieldennett @NewYorker Not if you're doing it right.

@danieldennett @newyorker anything can 'lead to' anything else as long as fallacies are OK. (Plantinga has let fear trump his smarts.)

@danieldennett tho' Marcus's pic of science where you "weigh the existing evidence, and assign likelihoods to hypotheses" is also contested

@danieldennett "sensus divinitatis" - I used to have a powerful "sensus santa clausis"

@danieldennett @NewYorker Well yes... when people try to learn science but then notice it takes time and effort... it does lead to faith.

@danieldennett @NewYorker Yes, it can. But I suspect not by any logically valid route.

@danieldennett @NewYorker Not the faith that some believers harp on about, dogma and all that.