(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.
Lets just say the name of Jesus engraved on a chromosome, on every human, would be a good start.
It is still no proof of a god, but it would be proof of intelligent design. Just like how people put up signs that claim they were written by god, people are just as willing to put Jesus' name on their own handy work.
So yeah, seeing that would REALLY make me scratch my head, instead of the usual "evidence" which merely makes me laugh and comment on how idiotic the people are who think such bullshit is equivalent to good evidence.
