(October 30, 2019 at 2:50 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: People have asserted that the existence of gods is unfalsifiable. No one can say that they know that this is true, and, in each and every case so far, it has been demonstrably false.I almost completely agree with you. Belacqua says that I am rejecting theology because of my metaphysical conviction that science is the only way of knowing and that only natural world exists. Well you don't need to believe that to think that theology isn't a way of knowing anything. And even that science is the only way of knowing doesn't need to be a metaphysical conviction, we can come to that notion empirically: things that don't follow the scientific method rarely, if ever, produce useful answers. I like how Antun Gustav Matoš said: "If all those guesses made by philosophers of aesthetics went into oblivion, we wouldn't really lose anything. They are useless to the actual artists.". Richard Feynman made similar remarks about how philosophy relates to science.
Even as an empty assertion, it can only be floated about some nondescript god that no one believes in. The abrahamic god, the various pantheons of the pile of dead religions..all of them, falsified. The nondescript "created it all and set back to watch" god is falsifiable..even if we insist it hasn't been falsified.
Human beings aren't very good at creating unfalsifiable statements or concepts. It's just not how we think about things. Go ahead, try it. Try to say something that can't be falsified.
BTW, what do you think about my video about atheism?
