(September 4, 2014 at 7:50 am)Michael Wrote: What experiment would you suggest I perform?I think that the reason for this is that theists have shoved god further and further into a metaphysical void in order to explain why he doesn't make his existence plain to everyone. We run into no shortage of reasons why god will not, cannot, and should not reveal himself plainly to humanity, with some form of "you can't obligate him, you lowly creature" as the ultimate fall-back position. None of those seem any more reasonable to me than "he isn't actually there."
I know of no scientific experiment that can falsify the hypothesis "God exists".
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
