Do we have any evidence against the supernatural?
Now, I don't mean evidence against any specific claim about an event that may or may not have happened on this earth. I mean,
do we have any evidence to counter the claim "there is a nonphysical afterlife." or "After death my soul will live on." ?
I don't see how it's even logically possible to provide such evidence. And just to take a pre-emptive strike against those who might want to claim parsimony or Occam's Razor... parsimony is a made-up, ad-hoc principle in creating scientific models. It itself is not a form of evidence, and it does not apply in any way to metaphysical "truth."
I would appreciate to know this, because I've seen a fair number of claims about how the supernatural is "unlikely", we have "evidence against it", or that it's just "unnecessary." (Being generous,) It's been unnecessary in creating models for describing the physical world. Certainly it's an unwarranted step to go beyond THAT and claim "truth."
I'd like to finally face this issue. If possible.
(AbE: I'd also like a place where I can ask people to go if they make these claims within another thread. Rather than pull a discussion OT, I can ask this question and ask them to respond in this thread.)
(maybe "Is It Science?")
This message has been edited by Ben, Sunday, 2005/10/02 09:13 AM
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