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There is no need for a god. I mean, everything in the world can be understood without needing [music] to invoke a god. You have to accept that that is one possible view to take about the world. Sure, that's possible.
[music] But, and do you deny that science cannot account for everything? Yes, I do deny that science.
>> So what counts for?
>> Well, I had you brought that up in the debate, I had a number of examples that I was going to give. [music] Uh, I think there are a good number of things that cannot be scientifically proven but that we're all rational to accept. Let me, let me list five.
Logical and mathematical truths cannot be proven by science. Science [music] presupposes logic and math, so that to try to prove them by science would be arguing in a circle.
Uh, metaphysical truths like there are other minds other than my own, or that the external world is real, or that the past was [music] not created five minutes ago with an appearance of age are rational beliefs that cannot [music] be scientifically proven.
Ethical beliefs about statements of value are not accessible by [music] the scientific method. You can't show by science whether the Nazi scientists in the [music] camps did anything evil as opposed to the scientists in western democracies.
Aesthetic judgments, number four, cannot be accessed by the scientific method [music] because the beautiful, like the good, cannot be scientifically proven.
And finally, most remarkably would be [music] science itself. Science cannot be justified by the scientific method. Science is permeated with u unprovable assumptions. [music] For example, in the special theory of relativity, the whole theory hinges on the assumption that [music] the speed of light is constant in a one-way direction between any two points A and B. [music] But that strictly cannot be proven. We simply have to assume that in order to hold to the theory.