Don't you think that it is ridiculous for a person to claim to know what
obviously cannot be known?
First, I'm not sure that there is anything that, ultimately, cannot be known. So I assume you mean cannot be known at this present time. If we invent time machine that can send a camera back in time and take video of any event we want to see and samples of the environment, we may eventually know what caused the death of the dinosaurs, how they built the pyramids, whether the Mayans truly engaged in human sacrifice, and many other things on which we now merely speculate.
But on a different scale, the reality is that we can never truly KNOW anything except definitions. Everything is theory. Some theories work out better than others, like the theory that the earth revolves around the sun, but it's still a theory, which might some day be exploded by new scientific discoveries. So it really is the simple question of what grounds you prefer to base your theories on -- pure science, pure religious belief, some combination of these to, or something entirely different from or in addition to these two. |
