(April 9, 2018 at 8:23 pm)Bahana Wrote: Can you test a hypothesis about the supernatural? I've heard people argue on both sides of this. I've heard you cannot because you can use a supernatural being as the the explanation for anything if you think it is all powerful. I've also heard certain things like an amputee growing a limb back after someone prays for them in the moment would be good evidence. Where do you forumers stand on this?
A few things wrong with this.
1. You are making a category error. You cannot test the hypothesis of the supernatural with natural tools. You can observe the supernatural. You can infer the supernatural. You cannot apply a scientific test to the supernatural.
2. It has nothing to do with "all powerful". Not at all.
3. There is a nearly limitless number of examples you can dream up that if it happened, you would ascribe a supernatural cause. Why limbs? What gives you the idea that that is what we should expect to see? I can't think of one reason to think that this is what we should expect to see. It's a red herring.
