SOC250Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Direct And Indirect Realism, Agnosticism, Reductionism
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For science, the divine or supernatural is not empirically verifiable . Or falsifiable epistemologically, faith statemetns, i. e the claims of believers to spiritual or divine truths are not fundamentally factual or empirical. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (heb. Accordingly, the evidence or proofs for faith statements are internal to each particular religious tradition--- the specific faith claims of one tradition are not convincing to those believing in other traditions, nor to skeptics and atheists. Parable of the two explorers and the garden (find on google, too much to type) Human beings not completely reliant on religion for these functions, there"s competition : we have : (common sense, science, law, morality, technology, art, etc, share those functions) E. g in prior societies, more emphasis on religion to heal, but now niggas go to the hospital, if they say you dying bro, you start the prayer power.
