QUOTE : What kind of person seeks to understand the origins of our universe – where no humans were present – using human sensory experiences? How irrational can you get? Your human senses and experiences can’t tell you a single thing about what caused the Big Bang. The skeptical empiricist David Hume went as far as to deny the existence of causation because he could not empirically perceive it. He would thus deny the Big Bang, and the cause of the Big Bang. When you take empiricism to its logical conclusion, you arrive at Hume’s philosophy: total nihilism and anti-knowledge, which reduces reality to whatever a human being is currently perceiving. Even what has just happened a moment before is no longer in the province of strict empiricism and can no longer constitute “knowledge.