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> Look, I understand what you're getting at regarding epistemological foundations.

> accepting base axioms necessary for any kind of knowledge (like "my sensory experiences generally correspond to reality")

The irony.

You People fascinate me to no end.

> can be provisionally rejected

I'd enjoy seeing you store "can be provisionally rejected" in a variable, perform some logic upon it, and then produce an output - what would the variable type of the output be?

> and scientific heuristics

I said heuristics, not scientific heuristics. Science (the scriptures) has methods and standards, and you are violating them, thus failing to meet the categorical requirements.

> They've given us everything from smartphones to space travel.

Right smack dab in the middle of the Normal Distribution. Thus, not shocking.

> Religious claims haven't demonstrated similar utility beyond social/psychological benefits that can be explained naturalistically.

"haven't...that can be explained"

> No, I don't think you're dumb or confused.

Then why do you talk to me the way you do?

> taken to its logical conclusion

Did you use logic to arrive at this "its(!) logical conclusion"?

> where we can't meaningfully distinguish between well-supported and unsupported beliefs.

I have bad news: you're already in this spot, but you cannot realize it because you are in the spot.



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