[QUOTE="THUMPTABLE"][QUOTE="_glatisant_"][QUOTE="mikeg0788"] Well you're in luck, i just had a test friday over induction. According to Faraday's law of induction, an induced emf is produced in a circuit when there is a changing magnetic flux through said circuit.
Not sure what that has to do with atheism.
domatron23
This is the only post in this thread I've understood. E = -N dphi/dt
Your doing one better than me.....:(Eh don't worry I have hardly any idea about what's going on either. I still haven't quite wrapped my head around this one yet but I do get the feeling that an immutable mind is subject to the same problems as a uniform law of nature is. Danwallacefan really needs to explain why the problem of induction doesn't apply equally to God.
Fundamentally yes, the argument gains no traction from introducing a God in any form.
An argument from experience outght to be seen, not as an irreparably fallacious attempt to deduce conclusions necessarily wider thatn the available premises can possibly contain, but rather as a matter of following a tentative and self-correcting rule, a rule that is part of the very paradigm of inquiring rationality. This rule could be stated in these terms:
When all known cases of so-and-so have been found to be such-and-such, expect and presume that other so-and-sos have been and will be until and unless you discover some particular reason to revise these expectations.
I think Tooltime said it best: "If you want to chase the tail of false certainty, be my guest. The problem of induction does not destroy science, it simply exposes a limit to what we can prove about what we know, or might know. If you want to lecture me about induction you might want to understand the actual scope of the conclusion first."
I am done with this thread. I am so tired of arguing this already-well-studied and well-argued point.
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