RE: 'Seeking' God
October 31, 2011 at 3:36 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2011 at 3:37 pm by fr0d0.)
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I'd settle with understanding claims to the material with science, since that can be handled quite nicely. Including any claims where the "supernatural" is said to have interfered or otherwise come into contact with the "regular nature?". Too much to ask?Too Illogical to ask.
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: (such as would be the case with miracles, including the miracle of heaven, souls etc)Those are not miracles, but you knew that.
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: I'd settle with understanding claims to the supernatural referenced by what we can demonstrate.You would settle for a square circle, in other words.
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Are you going to sit here and make the argument that faith in a christian god and the scientific method have anything in common,Never ever.
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: anything at all beyond the superficial?Not scientifically provable does not equal superficial.
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: How about you tell me about seeking god, and the reasons you feel your description of this search (how it should be done, where one should look, what criteria one should apply in the search) is accurate?Using intellectual rigour.
(October 30, 2011 at 6:19 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Did you employ these methods to reach your own conclusion? Can the same methods be used to reach any other conclusion, perhaps a competing one? Can this line of reasoning be used for anything else? Can we get a false positive in using it? What would invalidate this line of reasoning?Yes I reached my own conclusions.
Yes the same method can be used to reach other & also competing conclusions. It it the information which produces the conclusion.
Lots of other subjects, from mathematics to science.
We can introduce false positives to test it, yes.
Evidence to the contrary would invalidate it.