(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.
Would you please define 'deity' in this context? What is it exactly that you want to know what it would take to convince us of?
