(August 17, 2013 at 5:58 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote:(August 17, 2013 at 1:53 pm)Theo Zacharias Wrote: Not necessarily true.
If God affects the world frequently on the same place/person, then yes it's reproducible and subject to scientific investigation. We can go to the place or meet the person and conduct a scientific experiment to verify the effect.
But if God affects the world frequently but always (or at least most of the time) on a different place/person, then how can we conduct any scientific investigation if we don't know where to go to verify the effect?
No, that's not how it works, control for age, gender, other possible confounding factors and you're good to go. In fact, that design will have greater external validity compared to a "lab type scenario" where the same phenomena happens to the same person over and over again.
I don't think we have to move forward to experiment design when we haven't even have a cause to study these phenomenas though.
long story short: that's not a dilemma, it's done all the time in science.
Are you saying that if God exists, He is not able to affect this world in unreproducible way? Not just God, I think if there is an alien natural beings with technology million years more advanced than what we have now, they can easily affect this world without leaving any evidence at all that can be detected by our current technology if they want to.
