Empiricism: a Denial of Common Sense

Modern atheism won't accept any conclusion without empirical evidence. What empirical evidence suggests that "we can only have certainty from empirical evidence"? The irony that reason is used to discredit reason.

"The search for knowledge is an effort to amplify and to deepen the knowledge of which the man on the street enjoys, in moderation, with respect to all the daily things that surround him. The act of denying the same nucleus of common sense, the act of requiring evidence for that which the physicist and the man on the street accept as obvious, isn't a praiseworthy perfectionism; it's in fact a pompous confusion." (My emphasis added.)

W.V. QUINE, "The Scope and Language of Science" in The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Harvard University Press, 1976, 229-230.