[DarkSavant]

I'm taken with religious folks who argue that you not only can, but should believe without requiring proof. Mine is to not believe without requiring proof.

Sir, please prove two plus two equals four, or that you're a human being and not actually an asteroid. Here's a simple one, prove that your mental stimuli is accurate to the world around you. Can't prove it? Then what in blazes can you do?

Everything one knows is based on an element of faith that can't be proven.

I swear the more brilliant the scientist, the most insanely idiotic his metaphysical views. Must be a pride thing.

[NCSteve]

I swear the more brilliant the scientist, the most insanely idiotic his metaphysical views. Must be a pride thing.

That has to be one of the most brilliant things I've read in quite a long time. Congratulations and thanks. It's always good to meet other sentient beings along the way.

[GSlob]

Sir, please prove two plus two equals four...
But this is a definition of "four", and definitions are not subject to proof, being agreements about the assigned meaning of words. And to get four, count thou two and two together; and the number of thy counting shall be four... Three thou shalt not count, unless it be on your way to count four; nor five, unless thou countest in error...