On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:33:16 +0000
Jim H  wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 21:05:30 +0000, in
> , Ahem A Rivet's
> Shot  wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:45:59 +0000
> >Jim H  wrote:
> >
> >> Except... science has something much more demonstrable than "belief"
> >> to hang its hat on.
> >
> > Ultimately it does not, science hangs its hat on the belief that
> > the
> >universe actually is self consistent rather than just appearing to be so
> >most of the time.
>
> I'd like to hear your definition of "most."

 I've yet to see it not appear to be self consistent.

> I don't buy the *TOTAL* debunking of anything based only on "we can
> never know for sure and thus everything is only belief."

 It is however the reality of the situation. We can never know for
sure, we can only build the best models we can.

> This is
> little more than sophistry in my book. The smart money goes with
> widely accepted (among scientists) science as being correct at least

 For sure - but that doesn't make it true, it just makes it a
sensible belief.

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