Posted: Nov 30, 2017 10:30 pm
You don't. All you can do is accept them provisionally, make predictions based on them, then test those to ensure the premises do not infer a falsehood. However, if the tests confirm the prediction, all you do is increase confidence, and should keep testing.Thomas Eshuis wrote:Either way, the discusssion is about his argument that the premises don't have to be demonstrably true, just true.
Which begs the question: how do you know the premises are true if you cannot demonstrate them to be so?
Of course, you have to be honest about the process, and willing to discard explanations that are falsified and then seek better ones, rather than ignoring falsifying evidence, or fabricating adhoc excuses why the prediction fails.
I wonder why...Thomas Eshuis wrote:However what you will see is the creation account and the bible unchanged whilst science changes the story once again.