Faith & Reason
"A strict agnostic says you cannot pronounce as knowledge anything you cannot demonstrate. In other words, if you're gonna call it knowledge you have to be able to run an experiment on it that's repeatable. You can't run an experiment on whether God exists or not, therefore you can't say anything about it is knowledge. You can have a belief [in God] if you want to, if that is what grabs you, if you were called in that direction, if you have a subjective experience of that kind, that would be your belief system. You just can't call it knowledge." -Margaret Atwood
"People will probably never agree about the large questions of life," says philosopher Colin McGinn. "What's important, I think, is that they hold their beliefs with the right kind of doubt and qualifications..."
Hi from Disneyland! We were flipping channels and David found a show I hadn't heard of before: Faith & Reason. The above is a quote from it. I want to see more.
-http://www.pbs.org/moyers/portraits.html
"People will probably never agree about the large questions of life," says philosopher Colin McGinn. "What's important, I think, is that they hold their beliefs with the right kind of doubt and qualifications..."
Hi from Disneyland! We were flipping channels and David found a show I hadn't heard of before: Faith & Reason. The above is a quote from it. I want to see more.
-http://www.pbs.org/moyers/portraits.html