<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1951707450">TT</a>: My worldview is different from my foundational assumptions.</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1951751365">LB</a>: Ok, but it's critically predicated upon your metaphysic, right? Delete the metaphysic and you have no worldview, right?</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1952781747">TT</a>: My worldview does not necessarily flow from my foundational metaphysic, unlike yours. That is the huge difference between us.</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1953109506">LB</a>: This denies that your metaphysic necessarily generates your beliefs, does it not?</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1953282783">TT</a>: Yes. My foundational metaphysic does not necessarily generate my beliefs.</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1953341767">LB</a>: What generates your beliefs when your foundational metaphysic isn't causally active?</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1953683046">TT</a>: What the hell do you mean by causally active? Explain.</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1953720281">LB</a>: A foundational metaphysic which is not "causally active" is like a dormant gene: it isn't doing anything.</blockquote>

<blockquote><a href="http://www.atheismandthecity.com/2015/04/what-to-make-of-evidence-for-afterlife.html#comment-1955530387">TT</a>: Causally here needs to be explained more. What is the nature of this causation. Is it like a YEC metaphysic "causing" someone to believe the earth is &lt;10000 yrs old? My metaphysic does not cause me to believe in naturalism. It allows me the tools to investigate the world, and the data I find allows me to conclude naturalism.</blockquote>