[QUOTE="danwallacefan"]his resposne to the problem of induction was absolutely pitiful TBH. His only solution is the idea that there are "laws of nature" which govern how the universe works. Now he's just moving the problem one step back. What deduction proves that the laws of nature or even the laws of logic will remain the same? None that's what. There is absolutely no reason to say that the laws of logic or the laws of nature, under his worldview, are NECESSARILY immutable.GabuEx

No, his response was completely apt. The "solution" that there exists an unchanging mind is only a solution if there actually does exist this unchanging mind. Similarly, one could propose as a solution that the laws of nature are themselves unchanging my virtue of their being the laws of nature. There is absolutely no difference: both are proposing a possible way of solving the problem without actually proving that it is the case.

Bingo.

 As much as I abhorr getting into this logical induction argument again (as it's been defeated so thoroughly by philosophers far better than any of us) tootime did a round browbeating of this arguement here fairly recently in response to a guy named Mike.

Reply to Mike Part 1

Reply to Mike Part 2

My video on the topic: My Journey to Atheism

 But in shorter form: My moment of realization came when I was in Catholic Jr. High (8th grade I believe), and I had 3 period Religion and a 4th period English. About halfway through the semester in English we started studying Mythology. That was probably the deathblow right there. I couldn't understand why we thought one was true and the other was false. It just kinda mushroomed from there.

nice list, but I have a two suggestions:

1) http://wiki.ironchariots.org should probably be on that list.

2) I think RationalResponse was banned from Youtube.

Unless you're a Jew. Judaism apparently doesn't allow you not to be a member. :P

Its a big book. There's plenty of space to get 101 facts correct, and even more space to get lots of things wrong.Bourbons3

Add a dash of post hoc ergo propter hoc, bake for 2 milleneia and serve.

Hey, I'm cj. I really consider myself a militant agnostic, but I usually tend to side with the atheists, so I'm here. So, umm... yay.