(March 2, 2012 at 10:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: What kind of evidence or proof would it take for you to believe in deity? A miracle? An artifact? the name of Jesus engraved on a chromosome?
Some say belief in deity is not scientific in the sense of not being falsifiable. But can't something be true even if it isn't falsifiable. For example, in the movie Contact, the boyfriend of the Jodie Foster character says, "prove that I love you." That appears to be an example of the kinds of statements that can be true but not be disprovable and in the same class as the "Hard Problem" of David Chalmers. How can you prove that other people are self-aware? If a computer passed the Turing test could you prove that it was or was not conscious? Etc.
If you cant even imagine what sort of proof would be required for something then its probably true that you havent got a good grasp on the concept.
I am in this camp.
What the fuck is an 'uncaused cause' supposed to look like?
how does something Magic stuff into being?
How does being an ultimate moral authority work?
I see god as just anthropomorphism of abstract concepts.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
