Unscientific Solution to Zeno's "Achilles and the Tortoise" Paradox

The reason I'm offering this solution is because it has been said that Zeno's paradoxes show that philosophy is not prior to science, thereby elevating science above philosophy and any metaphysical foundationalist claims laid against science, so as to avoid having to acknowledge the existence of anything metaphysical, which would prove the Naturalist worldview false.

So, I decided to see if I could solve Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise (which is essentially the same as his other two most prominent paradoxes).


Achilles and the tortoise

"In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead." -Wikipedia (see link below).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno's_paradoxes#Achilles_and_the_tortoise

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-zeno/#AchTor

First, the paradox presumes knowledge of what it means to be "quicker" and "to overtake", so one would be justified in asking what is meant by these terms. And in defining the terms, the solution to the paradox presents itself.

The solution is that the only relevant considerations involved in "overtaking" or being "quicker" are time and distance. It is not at all relevant that each point has an infinite number of in-between points, because speed is measured in distance traveled over time - not in in-between points;

And, again, this is something the paradox already presumes (in not so many words, so as to be deliberately vague), so it's not like I had to appeal to something beyond the supposed paradox.

The paradox is a bait and switch.

Unscientific Proof of the Existence of God

Scientists consider, as axiomatic, the five senses to be adequately capable of determining facts about things empirical. They are willing to accept this because
1) experience tells us that we can come to the conclusion, about a great many things, that what we observe follows a set of laws consistently, and
2) there is really no way to prove, "scientifically" speaking, that our five senses indeed supply us with factual information.

That second point is where the world finds solace from God, for if science can tell us everything that can be known, and there is no way to "prove" that the foundations of scientific research are reliable to ANY degree, then certainly one ought not to presume that we can come to conclusions about things we cannot observe "scientifically"- such as god.

But calling our five senses "adequately capable" is merely a convenience. All they have to do is go a few steps farther to conclude that a god exists.

You see, granted that our five senses are available to us by physical media (e.g. nerves, brain, etc.), the PERCEPTION we derive from these stimuli are UNEMPIRICAL in nature- you can see my body react to my perception of pain when I touch a hot stove, but the pain that *I feel* (i.e. the pain itself) cannot be proven to exist "scientifically"- proof and inference are two different things.

But not only do we have within ourselves the proof of the existence of things unempirical, but also the proof that our physical bodies react to unempirical
stimuli: we formulate some of our ideas from the information we get from our physical bodies, but we also use those ideas to formulate more complex ideas-
and we react physically to both the former AND latter kinds of ideas.

Now here's the clincher: How does an empirical object (such as our bodies) utilize an unempirical stimulus (such as the aforementioned "latter" ideas) if all
that is supposed to exist are things empirical, governed by cause/effect relationships to one another?

Doesn't the interference of unempirical stimuli upon a causal system imply the existence of unempirical sentient beings?

And since these beings exist- where could they have come from seeing that they are not causal in nature?

The only conclusion we can come to is that these unempirical sentient beings (i.e. "souls") have an unempirical origin.

I call this origin "god."