We love you pal. The young have no idea who Francis Bacon was. They have no clue of Novum Organon.
The old saying” Its never a good idea to get into an argument with a fool because the bystanders won’t be able to fuigure out who the foll is!”
Bless you for trying. NVNG but after all is over, you might as well urinate into the face of a hurricane.
A POX on the OBUMMER lurkers!!!!!!!!!!!!
Caddis thye younger
Descartes was wrong about some things, but his skepticism and logic were admirable. By questioning the existence of everything, including himself, he “reset” Western thought, freeing it from the iron bands of Aristotlean dogma. He also established an invincible, rational basis for faith by pointing out the leap of faith required by empiricism, i.e. that we cannot demonstrate empirically that sensory information (and thus ‘empirical’ evidence) corresponds to reality in any meaningful way. By proving that our observations of reality rest upon a leap of faith (i.e. that what we see, hear, etc., is “real”), Descartes, Rationalist supreme, did away with the notion that the leap of faith required to believe in God is in any way unscientific. Thus, demonstrated Descartes, all systems of thought, including the empirical,ultimately are faith-based.