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Quote by: SoccerfreakAB2 What bias is present? How can reason be biased? Reason can be incorrect, but not biased. It's that mentality that allows you to believe in the Bible, a completely biased book, because you think everything is biased and that makes it ok. |
Reason cannot be biased. That is precisely my point. You were arguing that the works of certain philosphers were superior because they were based "solely on reason." What I'm saying, is that their works WERE NOT based solely on reason simply because they, like all humans, were biased. Reason is not biased, they (and therefore their works) are. They were biased because they were raised by particular people who had certain views (whether they kept those views or rejected them is not the point, it still affected their development) and raised in a specific society that held certain principles dear. Of course I am biased towards the Bible, just as you are biased against it. If you were presented with two arguments with equal scientific validity, you would certainly choose an athiestic explanation. Similarly, if presented with statistics or scientific data that could be interpreted a number of ways, you certainly would be inclined to side with a naturalistic explanation. Thats fine. I do the same, just in the other direction. Don't pretend one is logically superior to another because it is "based solely on reason"