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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: The Philosopher who wrote (11284)4/14/2001 9:54:07 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Oh? If you're profoundly deaf from birth, what empirical evidence? People say it exists. But people say God exists. Is that empirial evidence?

Nonsense. A loud enough sound wave can be felt through the skin. A deaf person wishing to verify the alleged existence of sound would simply have to construct a device for measuring vibration. Not to mention odd phenomena such as the fact that people react when you clap your hands, even when their backs are turned. If a deaf person who had never been told that sound exists were introduced to a hearing society, that person would deduce very quickly that other people were using and responding to an unknown form of stimulus, and it would not take very long to get a fairly good idea of exactly what that stimulus was.

Sound can be measured in many ways, even by people that can't hear it, just as we can't see air, but we can measure its movement. Asserting the existence of God is in a totally different category.
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