(February 8, 2016 at 3:18 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(February 8, 2016 at 2:56 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: The spirit is a superstitious explanation of consciousness, which we now know to be a process of the brain, the soul has no basis in reality. Dark matter is a hypothesis to explain the lack of observable mass in the universe, we don't know what dark matter is, but we know 80% of the universe is composed of something unobservable, it's simply a matter of figuring out how it can be observed. Higgs Boson was a hypothesis, with as much basis in science as dark matter, it took a lot of work, but it was eventually confirmed. With science.I’m not saying you’re wrong, but I want you to think more deeply about how you explain this.
No one has ever demonstrated evidence for the existence of the soul, not through observation or postulation based on a credible hypothesis; this is because the idea is vague and unfalsifiable, no one has ever even defined what a soul is on paper, whereas people have formed credible ideas on what dark matter might be.
If no one can observe dark matter or say what it is how is that different from spirit? Everybody thinks the evidence they present to support their ideas is credible. I want you to show me why yours is. It’s not hard. Is the word “postulation” a clue?
You are a really nice person, but this is also why I highly recommend people read "The New Atheism" by Victor Stenger. He is correct in that book that science DOES have something to say about the "unseen".
Think about it, you cant see where the water goes down the drain of your tub, but you DO see the affects gravity has on the water. Same with a black hole. We do know through science formulas now, what goes on inside a black hole even though we cant see it with the naked eye. We do see the affects the black hole has on the material we do see it sucking in.
Dark matter is simply something we need to study, and we study it by what it does to the things it has an affect on. That is how we know it exists.
