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Originally Posted by Zamadhi
What makes you so sure logic is the best system? (not an insult, just a question).
I am not sure at all nor do I really care because it gives testable predictions that are valuable in actual life. Anything beyond what we can test (science) is philosophy which is fine but you can never come to conclusions you can rely on. Obviously in astrophysics philosophy sometimes mixes with science but they are still treated separately, something most people don't realize.
The big bang is pretty much scientific theory (a theory is not a hypothesis) but it leads to some conclusions we don't understand. Same goes for singularities in black holes. I take it as far as science will let me go and distance myself from making (too) many conclusions about anything beyond that. It has been pretty much a perfect system for all earthly matters and it is self restoring. The moment evidence arises it can completely evaporate an established theory, something that spirituality doesn't do because nobody agrees with something in the first place. That's because there is no evidence which gives us thousands of religions and beliefs.
So would I rather be part of one of the thousands of different cults that have no prediction power or do I rely on a system that has been accurate for a long time, albeit not perfect. If I turn out to be wrong I want to be wrong for the right reasons.