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The White Debonair
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First, I need convincing that man's approaches to uncovering "truth" are complete in that they have the potential to explain everything.
along with compelling evidence that supranatural events/phenonema/etc. cannot exist.
Either of these satisfies the first condition that the rules of scientific inquiry (as we've been discussing them) are completely sufficient for explaining everything.
Then I would need compelling evidence that spiritually for lack of a better term is wholly explained by natural phenomena and occurences.
Then I would need a coherent and compelling explanation for the "beginning" as well as one (related to above) for why there has been a consistent thread of spirituality through human history that appears to be instinctual rather than learned.
That's the best I can come up with now.
My primary point to you though really lies with the first one - I don't share your faith in the infallibility and totality of scientific inquiry's ability to explain all - or put differently to question the existence of something simply because it might not be explainable via scientific inquiry.
A lot of babble going on but this is good stuff....