Foolishness of the Week IV (Yes, it's back again!)

In a certain (unnamed) magazine, a certain (unnamed) journalist used David Hume's quote concerning the rules for science and sophistry as a punchline against the credibility of religion in general.

Now old Dave Hume was a notable skeptic, and he never really liked the metaphysics of religion a lot, so one of his tirades against it, he wrote:

"If a theory cannot be observed by any of the 5 senses, or be verified by the laws of mathematics, then it is pure sophistry and should be consigned to the flames."

Promptly, however, on further thought, he went on to write something else. Upon reading the note, I called him honest and an intelligent man indeed.