(July 6, 2012 at 9:03 am)CliveStaples Wrote: 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?
Very true, maybe one day it will be shown that god exists.
But until then I have no reason to "believe"
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.