RE: I am an orthodox Christian, ask me a question!
August 8, 2009 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2009 at 2:51 pm by Jon Paul.)
(August 8, 2009 at 2:35 pm)Minimalist Wrote: How convenient.If that is not the case, then I must ask which discipline of modern science should test the hypothesis of Gods existence? If modern science and and the aim of the modern scientific method is the investigation of the natural world, then any hypothesis that transcends the natural is a priori excluded.
Science, in the classical sense, however, makes no such a priori exclusion of the transcendent. Classical science includes the investigation of the natural world, though it does not exclude anything transcendent to the natural world. The classical sense of science is rational investigation in all it's facets, wherever it's conclusions lead. Modern science is much narrower in it's scope than this.
The only surviving discipline with a classical inclusive scope of investigation is philosophy, which you probably don't consider as "science" anyway, simply because it doesn't live up to your preconceived notion of naturalism, which is itself a philosophical school and presupposition.
(August 8, 2009 at 2:39 pm)Ace Wrote: I cannot speak for other atheists but your arguments are not good enough for me to rethink the god claim. I could use your arguments to defend the existance of the easter bunny or any other crazy imagination.You certainly cannot, for my arguments no where suggest the easter bunny. They suggest God in the attributes of divine simplicity.
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