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Originally Posted by mischievious
I was a reasonable example and an attempt at a logical one but the logic didn't work. You failed to resolve a logical truth from it becasue you had set it up with dirty data.
You could have gone down the road of:
There is life on Earth
Bacteria has been discovered on Mars (Hence Life)
Therefore the is life on other planets.
I only take issue with the "logical likelyhood" of ray gun weilding aliens. The example by TheDon given previously was a myriad of stepping stones in logic which was reasonable but not logical per se. The initial premise led from one maybe statement to another much like chinese whispers.
I agree that it is likely that sentient existence exists on one or more planets in the universe.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...New-Earth.html |
I was not attempting to attain a final truth, note the words "likely". Being a staunch empiricist I would demand observational verification at which point the logical argument becomes rather moot.
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Since no logical Truth can be achieved from Religion nor Atheism the only logical conclusion is Agnostisism. I suspect that this comes under intuitive logic
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Ah the old hard atheist trick.
Well this is mainly an issue of semantics, but theism and atheism tend be statements of belief while gnosticism and agnosticism are statements of knowledge. So they are not mutually exclusive.