The presumptions for that more abundant life

skeptic griggsy

The presumption of empiricism is that we get our facts from Nature rather than from unfounded intuitions, making castles in the air. One might improve on this matter.
The presumption of naturalism is that natural causes and explanations are not only efficient and necessary but also primary and sufficient: they are the sufficient reason, Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz notwithstanding. This neither begs the question nor sandbags theists but is only the demand for evidence as Einstein overcame Newton. See the thread arguments about Him for more on this from Dr. Adler, theist.:D
Aquinas himself as Dr. Antony Newton Girard Flew notes in his " God , Freedom and Immortality," recognized the need to overcome this presumption. He failed with his five arguments. Flew calls this argument the presumption of agnosticism or atheism. Too bad he cannot now fathom it!
David Hume's argument against miracles is its corollary.;)
The presumption of rationalism is that we ought to use reason in acquiring knowledge rather than faith and the like. Reason can remove mountains of ignorance whilst faith rests on the argument from ignorance. Faith, the we just say so of credulity, begs the question of its object [ Articulett] Science, as Dr. Sydney Hook notes is acquired
knowledge whilst faith begs the question of being knowledge. Faith cannot instantiate any paranormal or supernatural matter - what philosopher Dr. Paul Kurtz calls " The Transcendent Temptation," a wondrous book.
And the presumption of skepticism is to approach claims with an open but not credulous mind. Some claims, like creationism, have no evidence, so they are false; others, like evolution are well-evidence and we find others, like the origins of language still in the running. We skeptics find truth to be the best evidence- tentatively true until more evidence puts a claim under a better position. That we have so much well-evidenced claims speaks well for our knowledge.
See the thread on covenant morality, for it is the presumption of humanism.
With these presumptions, we all can find that more abundant life that that ever dead Galilean could never produce!

eoin5

Whats the question grissy?