The fundamental problem for psychologists and other science-minded empiricists is that religious experiences are not susceptible to objective testing–and are thus, dismissible. Even so, they recognize that such experiences have a powerful impact not only on the individual but ‘peripheral’ believers, and in some cases, can affect an entire culture.

David Hume argues that we should be skeptical about testimony involving miracles.

David Hume was an empiricist philosopher who believed that knowledge was obtained from expereince. This article explores some of the basic foundations for his theory of knowledge.

(A critique on Hume’s account on reason)

Sir Isaac Newton had revolutionized scientific thought with his Laws of Physics. Surely if there would be laws governing nature, there would be laws governing people and society as well. It was Voltaire including his ideas in the seminal ‘Letters concerning the English nation’ that multiplied Newton’s impact on the enlightenment.

The cosmological argument for the existence of God.