About skepticism in metaphysics

«What’s wrong in trying to find the better explanation? It’s what we do in every other aspect of life.»

We don’t stay in bed saying that everything is a mistery so we cannot know anything. I could be a figment of your imagination or you could live in the Matrix. You’ll never know for sure. You can never know for sure if there is an external world. But you don’t accept this mistery and start trying to escape the Matrix. You accept the better explanation (that the external world is real) and base your life on it.

I cannot know if my wife loves me or is simply faking it: I don’t have access to her mind. But I get the best explanation and base my life on it.

Why should we stop our normal reasoning when it comes to God? There are some things about metaphysics that we can know by logic (the same way that there are some things about Maths that we can know by logic). We can get the best explanation, as in any other area of life.

Why this selective skepticism? It is that the conclusions are inconvenient so we suspend judgement because we don’t like the conclusions?

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There is Something rather than Nothing. To embrace any of the current explanations of Why requires a certain degree of faith. The tenacity required of the Atheist to cling to his particular set of superstitions makes a fundamentalist holy roller look like a piker.