You need to go watch this. This sums up VERY neatly the problem with dogmatic atheism today.
Jordan Peterson and Bret Weinstein ANNIHILATE "Career Atheist" Matt Dillahunty https://youtu.be/mGiKFcproHw
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What’s happening here? Dillahunty is merely PRESUPPOSING a certain kind of metaphysical worldview—a “faith” if you like—which he calls “skepticism.” And Peterson is challenge the core tenets of this belief-system. And THAT won’t do. Dillahunty doesn’t LIKE THAT.pic.twitter.com/ayssfGJv9v
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Peterson’s views are “garbage.” Why? Because he “violates” the sacred. What sacred? 1 Ockham’s Razón 2 The Null Hypothesis 3 The Burden of Proof And therefore, Peterson violates “the foundations of Skepticism.” Let’s take these one at a time.
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1 Ockham’s Razor. As I’ve noted often, Ockham’s Razor is MERELY THIS, AND NOTHING ELSE:pic.twitter.com/VWOQ7SlgND
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Ockham’s Razor is merely a sound methodological guideline. Yet some Skeptics treat it as an kind of secular member of the Ten Commandments.
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What would it mean to “violate” Ockham’s razor? The principle “the simpler theory is always necessarily true” is false.
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Or taken from the other side, the theory/explanation “God did it,” is VERY SIMPLE (and true, ultimately). An Ockhamite “natural science” wouldn’t get very far—as indeed it did not in the Islamic world, and still doesn’t, largely due to Islam’s rejection of NATURE.
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I recommend this lovely book, for the scholarly among you, which tells the story of how the Islamic world—unlike the Christian world—came to decisively reject PHILOSOPHY (and a fortiori, science) in principle: The Closing of the Muslim Mindhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1610170024/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_U_x_cTm7AbTH0AD0H …
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“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?” asked Tertullian. He wanted the answer to be “Nothing!” For Tertullian, Philosophy and Christianity are opposed. He lost that battle, decisively (and became a heretic later, in other ways also). For Christ is the λόγος, reason itself.
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>he became a heretic later Nope, merely schismatic.
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