mercredi 8 juin 2016

Are all sceptics materialists?

I've been arguing that I think that modern physical theories are moving towards absurdity. Computer Simulation or Multiverse is no
better than religion; Religion even trumps those theories in evidence!
Islam, for example, did stabilize a society for a very long time and even ushered in a Golden Age. And isn't it at least a little bit odd
that one man was able to conquer the entire Middle East within his lifetime? That's evidence. I doesn't trump Quantum Mechanics or
Relativity in evidence but it does trump Multiverse theory.
When I mention this a lot of times I get the response that it's a straw man to think that all sceptics believe in such theories. After all, they
are nothing but unproven hypothesises, right? The point I'm making however is that they are preferred by sceptics over religious theories
because present day sceptics are almost without exception Materialists. And that it is essentially the Materialistic world view that is in trouble
when I state that Islam has more evidence going for it than Magical Computer Programmers. So I'm accusing the present day scientists or sceptics
of being dogmatic Materialists. Otherwise, they should take Islam way more seriously than Multiverses since that's what the evidence says.

My question is if someone can provide me an example of a person considered a sceptic, yet who isn't a Materialist. Are there any sceptics that
aren't Materialists? Or is such a position considered to be implicitly contrary to scepticism?


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