A skeptic’s advice is self-refuting, showing a religious bias
by Murk Post

Published: 25 April 2013 (GMT+10)

[CMI Editor: Murk Post, from Canada, wrote to Dr Michael Shermer, editor of The Skeptic, who wrote a booklet titled, How to debate a creationist, asking him some questions and making some observations. It is a very interesting, incisive response, presented here with a couple of editorial additions, but substantially as Murk wrote it.]

Shermer: “With so many mutually-exclusive creationist doctrines all claiming infallibility and final Truth, a logical default position to fall to is science because it never makes absolutist truth claims. In science, all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the vary antithesis of religious faith.” (p. 22 in the booklet).

You present 6 points:

1.Conflicting truth doctrines exist
2.Logical default position = science
3.Because it never makes absolutist truth claims
4.In science all conclusions are provisional (tentative)
5.Science is subject to new evidence and better arguments
6.Science is counter proposition—in direct contrast to religious faith (antithesis)

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