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Topher wrote:

Submitted by aiia on November 15, 2007 - 10:39pm.

Topher wrote:

"We can't logically show that there is an outside wor[l]d

'Supernatural' (and 'immaterial' ) are broken concepts
- Submitted by todangst

Topher wrote:
"We can't logically show

...that the sun will rise tomorrow..."

If there is no world wide conspiracy (to not tell the rest of us) of the 1000's of astronomers and cosmologists who scan space 24 hours a day of an object big enough to stop the earth's rotation is about to collide with our planet within the next 24 hours the probability of the sun rising using Laplace's Rule of succession is about

Or almost 1

A better explaination of this is here:

Why the "Problem of Induction" really isn't a problem. (And why theists don't even get it right)

Also submitted by todangst

 

Religious faith is noncontingent.

In its broadest philosophical usage a state of affairs is said to be contingent if it may and also may not be.

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