This is from China, from Shanghai, and I just want to alert our viewers and our listeners

that we'll unpack this question. So don't let your eyes glaze over as we get into some of the

terminology here. It says, hi, Dr. Craig, is the atheist empiricist epistemology on a deeper

level really just solipsism? For illustration, if we measured by eye vision, what is known to exist,

then visual perception is just how the brain interprets EM waves and then abstractly turns

EM waves into a figure in our minds. What is abbreviating there is electromagnetic waves. Light

is a form of electromagnetic radiation, visible light. The issue with empiricism is that not all

brains interpret the same electromagnetic waves the same way. As colorblind people see different

colors are none, and there are many different conditions or situations one could think of to

change the way the same object with the same EM waves perceives that object per person. Thus,

this leads back to my question. If empiricism is knowledge from the senses and people can sense

the same objects in different ways, does that make empiricism just another type of solipsism?

As the self's perceptions limits what one consents.

Yes, solipsism is the doctrine that you are all that exists and that everything is a projection of

your mind. Okay, so he says, isn't the atheist empiricist epistemology just solipsism?

No, the short answer is no, because he recognizes that the perceptions we have at the external

world are formed as a result of external stimuli. Electromagnetic radiation stimulates the retina

of the eye and then is transmitted to the brain, and we form visual perception of the external

world. Now, what is question does raise is the very disturbing question about the veredicality

of our sense perception. It's certainly true that a creature say that was able to perceive by means

of x-rays or ultraviolet rays might perceive external reality very differently than we do

who are limited to visible light, that narrow range of electromagnetic radiation that we can see.

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