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Atheist vs. Christian epistemology.

BigLundi · 2012-04-13T04:53:45+00:00

I'm going to post a video. I'm not going to make any comments, but it's me, debating a christian. I just want some outsider-looking-in observation of how people thing I did. Edit: For Gambler's sake, I suppose a little more substance to my post is in order, but I'll try not to put any sort of slant on the video. Essentially it's me, BigLundi, or as I'm named in the video, "Alex from Pennsylvania" arguing with a young earth creationist fundamentalist christian about the subject of epistemology, or rather, how anyone comes to 'know' anything. My stance: We can both come to know things, and we can hold different levels of certainty when it comes to other things. However as far as general truth value goes, the atheist, or rather, a naturalist in my position, makes less assumptions in order to get to this point. While I cannot say that my brain is 100% reliable, and I cannot say that I know anything 100% absolutely, it's my volition that the christian doesn't have any particular advantage, as they must concede the same things. Creationliberty's stance: Anything less than 100% certainty might as well just be guessing. So long as the possibility exists that an almighty creator god COULD provide to us, knowledge so that we could be 100% certain, the christian epistemic view is better than the atheist naturalist view, because the atheist cannot point to an outside source that could reliably verify any information, while he can.