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[–] GlitterInfection 10 points 6 months ago (13 children)

So your arguments for agnosticism over atheism is that you don't want to make religious people feel uncomfortable and science isn't philosophy?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (8 children)

how on earth was that your takeaway from that comment?

neither science nor philosophy can provide objective truth in answer to the question "is there a god?"

it's edgy teen territory to act like they can

[–] GlitterInfection -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Their first part is a short work of fiction about making a religious person feel bad.

Their second is saying that science doesn't answer the question "why."

Philosophy asks "why" at least it does here on Earth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The first part is a response to "why would somebody be sad if their religion turned out to be false", which for the record, if you need it explained to you why that might be, you're really earning that "edgy teenager" label.

The second is saying that there's literally no way to be sure of answers on the scale of "is there a god?", science included

Philosophy asks some "why?" questions, but if you think it's equipped to definitively answer all of them you don't know much about philosophy.

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