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Letters


Letters


More Theology, More Falsification • Miraculous Coughs • Too-Many-Worlds Interpretation? • Death or Freedom? • Warhol Was First! • What is it Like to be You? • Is Philosophy Enough? • Idle Speculation


More Theology, More Falsification


DEAR EDITOR: John Champneys (Letters, Issue 30) asks why there was no mention of ‘agnosticism’ in my much reprinted article ‘Theology and Falsification’. The reason was that that article contained a challenge. My own response to the failure to offer any adequate response to that challenge has from the beginning been agnosticism.


David Muire is surely unfair to faith in his insistence that “faith and reason are not at loggerheads … the one has nothing to do with the other.” For it is possible rationally to believe that you have strong, but by themselves insufficient, evidencing reasons to establish some conclusion, but then to make a leap of faith to believing in that conclusion.


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