RE: Why all god claims fail.
April 16, 2016 at 1:27 pm
(This post was last modified: April 16, 2016 at 1:43 pm by FebruaryOfReason.)
(April 16, 2016 at 1:24 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 1:04 pm)FebruaryOfReason Wrote: You are quite right. Science is a tool for disproving things.
That's why a lot of people don't like to expose their assertions to it.
Ok... please show your disproval using peer reviewed scientific evidence. Or are you saying that your assertions don't require what you are asking for?
Eh? I (and several others on this thread) am asking for anything from Chad that we can disprove or even test in any way. Anything specific.
How is that an assertion?
Like for example, how we could go about checking that some guy received a new revelation from Jesus Christ through continuous heavenly visions which he experienced over a period of at least twenty-five years. How would anything about that be distinguishable from some guy just making it all up and telling us that he'd had the revelations, because he wanted the attention?
Or, for example, if Chad believes that "God" will replace the traditional Christian Church, establishing a "New Church", which will worship God in one person (Jesus Christ), how do we know when that's happened? Are there any timescales for the prediction, or anything specific at all about it, or is it all so couched in fuzzy terminology that anyone who believes in it can avoid having to say that the prediction failed, just by disputing its terms in retrospect?
Because if that is the kind of thing Chad thinks constitutes a form of truth outside science, then it's a pretty useless, anaemic kind of "truth".
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