"I
think the question, Is there a God falls into the category of a
physical empirical question. God is supposed to be somebody who created
the world. Is there a person who created the world, that's a perfectly
clear question with a right answer and I think it needs to be handled in
the way we handle other questions about the physical world, namely by
looking for evidence. So I don't think that's
a factually empty question, It could turn out..."
Isn't that a category mistake, trying to prove something in the physical world, something that is by definition outside of it?
"Well you could find evidence for it, I mean, If he created the world
then there might be evidence that he created the world, so It's not
completely isolated. Abstract objects are completely isolated so it
would be, I think a category mistake to look for evidence of abstract
objects in the physical world. So I think that's not an empirical
question and I think that is a factually empty question. But the God
question is different because God is supposed to interact with the
physical world, he made the world.
And so we could look for evidence of it and if there is evidence then I would say, okay, I believe in God."
Mark Balaguer (Professor of Philosophy)
"I
think the question, Is there a God falls into the category of a
physical empirical question. God is supposed to be somebody who created
the world. Is there a person who created the world, that's a perfectly
clear question with a right answer and I think it needs to be handled in
the way we handle other questions about the physical world, namely by
looking for evidence. So I don't think that's
a factually empty question, It could turn out..."
Isn't that a category mistake, trying to prove something in the physical world, something that is by definition outside of it?
"Well you could find evidence for it, I mean, If he created the world then there might be evidence that he created the world, so It's not completely isolated. Abstract objects are completely isolated so it would be, I think a category mistake to look for evidence of abstract objects in the physical world. So I think that's not an empirical question and I think that is a factually empty question. But the God question is different because God is supposed to interact with the physical world, he made the world.
And so we could look for evidence of it and if there is evidence then I would say, okay, I believe in God."
Mark Balaguer (Professor of Philosophy)
Isn't that a category mistake, trying to prove something in the physical world, something that is by definition outside of it?
"Well you could find evidence for it, I mean, If he created the world then there might be evidence that he created the world, so It's not completely isolated. Abstract objects are completely isolated so it would be, I think a category mistake to look for evidence of abstract objects in the physical world. So I think that's not an empirical question and I think that is a factually empty question. But the God question is different because God is supposed to interact with the physical world, he made the world.
And so we could look for evidence of it and if there is evidence then I would say, okay, I believe in God."
Mark Balaguer (Professor of Philosophy)
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