Quote:Reason 1. God is an unverifiable idea: There’s no concise definition of god, so a god can be anything that believers want it to be. This means that the definition of god can change to evade falsification. For example, when Darwin discovered that species are created by natural selection, rather than the God of Genesis, the definition of the Biblical God changed. No one today worships natural selection, even though it’s the actual mechanism responsible for the creation of new species. However, people do continue to believe in the Biblical God. The fact that the definition of god can change prevents us from ever verifying a god's existence.
I don't think I quite follow the reasoning here.
Our understanding of the laws of nature have changed over time. We went from the Greek notion of the four elements to the periodic table, from aether to atoms, and so on and so forth.
Each time, a previous conception was proved to be false in some way. Similarly, a previous conception of God was proved to be false in some way. That doesn't mean you can't verify God's existence (although modern science is based on falsification, not verification), it just means you're verifying that lots of different conceptions of god are false. Maybe eventually they'll all be shown to be false?
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
