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I don't have enough Faith to be an Atheist"Do you deny that science can account for everything?" challenged Atkins.
"Yes, I do deny that science can account for everything," said Craig.
"So what can’t it account for?" demanded Atkins.
A veteran of many debates, Craig was ready with a multifaceted answer. "I think there are a good number of things that cannot be scientifically proven but we are all rational to accept," he said. Craig then cited these five examples of rational beliefs that cannot be proven by science:
1. mathematics and logic (science can’t prove them because science presupposes them),
2. metaphysical truths (such as, there are minds that exist other than my own),
3. ethical judgments (you can’t prove by science that the Nazis were evil, because morality is not subject to the scientific method),
4. aesthetic judgments (the beautiful, like the good, cannot be scientifically proven), and, ironically
5. science itself (the belief that the scientific method discovers truth can’t be proven by the scientific method itself).
Buckley, the moderator,
cracked, "So put that in your pipe and smoke it!")
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