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Re: Response to Religion in Epistemological Skepticism

January 31st, 2011, 12:53 pm

Eduece wrote:No sir, I was reffering to neuroscience, and how the brain operates; which is a kind of religion in itself is it not??

How do you define religion? Some would say that religion is faith based while neuroscience is fact based. In both cases inferences are made about, say, the nature of consciousness. Religion is free to make claims that cannot be verified empirically while neuroscience is obliged to make only those claims that can be proven or falsified through empirical methods.

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