Reply #76: Then list some objective facts [View All]

[skepticscott]

(in which category the existence or non-existence of a deity certainly falls) that your other epistemologies have provided. What explanations for things have your other epistemologies shown to be objectively the best and most likely ones? What do we understand and what can we accomplish as a result of ontological and teleological inquiry that we did not understand and could not accomplish 50 or 100 years ago?

Oh, and for the record, in the scientific naturalism that you're so fond of bashing, there are no "beliefs" that matter. You are either convinced of something by objective evidence or you aren't.

And however you parse the problem of infinite regress and first causes, the concept of "god" does not solve it, unless you define "god" in a tortured, special pleading way.