Recently I've been ask to debate on a christian page in Facebook by some christian friends.Since i'm just a lay person and most of my doubts or questions are answered by reading(and watching)stuffs from here,the four horsemen-Harris,Hitchens,Dawkins and Dennett and many others,i didn't participated yet but they've been calling me to join for a month now.and here's just one(two) question someone asked,some help please.
To the Atheists in this group:
Since reason or rationality and science seems to be the banner under which you guys are marching, I want to ask these two questions-
1. What is the intellectual foundation that makes reason reasonable to rely?
2. In completely atheistic worldview, how do you account for the possibility of scientific enterprise?
Dont come saying reason is reasonable (i know that) or science is possible.. what i want to know is how do you account for that fact which all of us agree from atheistic point of view.
To be fair game... once you are done.. ill state how these things can be accounted from a christian point of view.
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1. Reason works. It has predictive power so its a safe assumption; it has no foundation if you use hard solipsism as a standard like most theists do in debate.
2. Scientific enterprise is defined by Wikipedia as:
Scientific enterprise refers to science-based projects developed by, or in cooperation with, private entrepreneurs. For example, in the Age of Exploration, leaders like Henry the Navigator founded schools of navigation, from which stemmed voyages of exploration.
Why wouldn't science and business cooperate in an atheistic world view? I don't see a conflict of interest.
Agreed these questions are ridiculous.
1. Reason works its built into us. I suppose sone dont understand reason and some just ignore it. But its there. It needs no foundation you take a problem apply reason if you do it right it works.
2. Without religions influence science would be much more advanced than it is now. Simple fact is religion opposes knowledge its dangerous to them.