Richard Swinburne | Science Debate | Proposition (5/6)

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The Motion: This House Believes That Science Alone Can Never Answer Our Biggest Questions.
Professor Richard Swinburne closes the case for the Proposition, as the fifth speaker of six in the debate.
The motion carried.
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[@nietzschean3138]

I really expected him to smack that glass of water onto the floor.

[@aslapiana]

They need to remove the person / people that keep coughing.

[@flyingphoenix113]

Finally first on a Swinburne debate.

[@SuperSalami99]

Well science and morality are different concepts, science doesn't set out to find whats morally right or wrong whereas ethics and philosophy does so obviously they're going to be better at that. Its like saying philosophy and ethics is bad because they never solve tangible problems with factual evidence.

[@something3395]

Well, you would be surprised what mandate some people claim for science. Sam Harris for example claims that one day natural sciences will be able to explain what's moral and what's not.

[@monkeytennis8861]

@@something3395 and why not? It would be based on evidence, as opposed to some mystical mumbo jumbo that we largely ignore anyway..

[@something3395]

@@monkeytennis8861 I didn't mention religion at all. My point is, you can't build a moral system based on scientific evidence, as you claim. It's not possible.

[@monkeytennis8861]

@@something3395 you don't know what may be possible in the future

[@ML-yy9iu]

@@monkeytennis8861 Science is in the business of stating facts. It is not in the business of determining what we ought to or ought not to do. Science will never allow for us to go from an is to an ought.

[@gpwbernardrementillachairm3736]

Is there anyone/any one on Earth who can honestly - Brutally HONEST - say & claim at the core of his/her being, as a Human Being who moves within mathematical infinite 360-degree rotating/revolving actions and re-actions that he/she comes into this Earth w/ LIFE that
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“I just come out into this Earth from no one ... I just simply exist into this World, into this One Earth from nothing?
Thank you all. Gpw Bernard Bautista Rementilla

[@monkeytennis8861]

That is one vile human being

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

People forget about the Soviet invasion of Manchuria which tore through the Japanese troops there. It was after that, which came after the nuclear bombs, that Japan surrendered.

[@xxMrBaldyxx]

All he did was ramble on about natural laws and morality. He never really ends up making any meaningful points.

[@monkeytennis8861]

He's an idiot

[@monkeytennis8861]

@Nicholas Kayban my career in academia doesn't make this guy any less of a crank

[@monkeytennis8861]

@Nicholas Kayban man alive, you're stupid