RE: Dembski's "Explaining Specified Complexity"

Pim van Meurs (entheta@eskimo.com)
Sun, 19 Sep 1999 11:39:58 -0700

Pim van Meurs:The existance of a God is not determined by evidence but by
faith.

Mike: Actually, there is no reason to think the two are mutually exclusive.
Speaking only for myself, I would simply say that if I did not
think there was evidence of God's existence, I'm not sure I would
still have faith (after all, I wasn't raised to believe in God).

But people also believe in fairies, UFO's all based upon 'evidence'. But this evidence hardly ever is scientific. So the two as such are mutually exclusive/

>Mike: Thus, it comes down to this. If you don't see any evidence for God's
>existence, then of course you're going to rule out intelligent intervention.

Pim van Meurs: It's not what I believe I see. My statement should be seen in
the light of scientific enquiry.

Mike: When it comes to God's existence, science has nothing to say. That is,
evidence can exist (recognized due to metaphysical assumptions) even if it
is not acknowledged by science. I will recognize your statement in the light
of scientific inquiry, but as I said before, I am not interested in how to
label things.

What value does this evidence then? Sure, evidence can exist but can we recognize it as such?

Mike