[calyman]

Originally Posted by BB_Eye

Of course you're going to look at it as a superstition if that's what you think. The natural sciences (to which I believe you are alluding) can't answer all of man's question. You forget philosophy is a science and in no way incompatible with the natural sciences.

Dave is a charlatan because he works for and enables an organisation that claims it can 'rehabilitate' homosexuals to lead intimate relationships with the opposite sex and that it can literally use supernatural powers to cure cancer. That is superstitious, irrational and anti-scientific and, more to the point, is a rotten, cynical lie.

Philosophy is not a specifically scientific way of rationalising evidence and data, It is actually the scientific approach which deals with establishing scientific facts.

Philosophy can take a scientific approach, or a spiritual, religious or other superstitious approach and reach vastly different conclusions. That is why there are so many varied forms of philosophic disciplines. None of which can unarguably state that truth has been established.

Only scientific analysis can say, after much rigorous testing and dealing with all reasonable criticism, whether a truth has been established or not.

"Man's questions" do not necessarily come up with definitive solutions, but what they can expose is the sham of easy solutions, superstition being one of them.

Most Judaic belief systems espouse something not dissimilair to that which Dave claims he can do, all that proves is the shamanic role that some practioners try to make the rest of us believe they have. It still all comes down to flim flam in the end.