Why Science and religious faith are in conflict.

[Jehanne]

Your story is a perfect example of how mythology made its way into the Bible; someone told a story, who told a story, and then told it to someone else, etc.  Over time the story grew and changed, before, eventually, being written down, but even after that, the story got changed further as it was copied from one person to the next until the copies became numerous enough that it was no longer "fashionable" to change the story any further.  And, so, the story became a "fact" for some while still being a myth for others.

And based on what evidence or reason, do you base any of that on?  If there isn't anything specific, then couldn't you deny anything with that reasoning?  We don't see any evidence of these many copies becoming one ( at least not that I am aware of).

Also, don't you think that would falsify the religion of Christianity?

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It would be very hard to justify physicalism, which is the basis at least for my atheism, if an adult amputee regrew his/her lost limb.  I suppose that everyone is different, though.  But, yes, I think that atheism, unlike theism, is falsifiable.  If an omnipotent God truly existed, then such a Being would know what evidence it would take to convince each of us, no?

Would you agree, that you need to be making a claim, in order for it to be falsifiable?

It is a fact, denied by no one, that copyists changed both the Old and New Testaments right up until the second millennium.  After that time in history, adding and/or changing the Biblical texts would be like someone trying to insert a new "lost" chapter into the Gospel of Matthew, or anywhere else for that matter; no one would believe that person(s) unless they had very good evidence for a very early copy of Matthew, which, of course, does not exist, at least not at present.

My claim is that miracles never occur; in fact, I hold that miracles (macroscopic violations of the Conservation Laws) are impossible, hence, the instantaneous healing and regeneration of an adult amputee's lost limb is impossible.  This claim, on my part, is completely falsifiable; if God exists, then, surely, it is not logically impossible for Him to heal an adult amputee?