RE: To explain knowledge of God
October 22, 2014 at 11:31 am
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2014 at 11:31 am by Drich.)
(October 22, 2014 at 11:24 am)Stimbo Wrote: Not even close enough to be wrong. Your Ask Seek Knock is a self reinforcing loop, forcing you to repeat the process until you can delude yourself that you've reached the conclusion you presupposed before you started. The Scientific Method is a mechanism for testing your hypothesis literally to failure point and then evaluating whatever survives to determine if it represents reality, or else requires modifying or even abandoning.
The peer review stage is a vital part of the process. It serves to correct errors and bias by having independent observers replicate your methods, with the aim of disproving your conclusions. It is not a mass circle jerk where everyone sits around confirming each other's delusions.
It can if one wants to be in said loop, just like one can use the scientific method to create a similar loop. Some examples: Hole in the Ozone, Pluto's planetary status, The predicted ice age by the year 2010, global warming, global cooling, global climbate change.. Again same methodology, same circular result up until the point where someone decides the truth is more important than the perservation of the traditional beliefs/status quoe. Then like A/S/K the scientific method is used to push past the old foundations of science and pours a new one. If one keep this process up eventually they will come to the truth.
This is all God asks of us. That we hold to him in the same way as we would hold to the method we use to come up with the crazy crap to give us the illusion of control of the world we live in
(October 22, 2014 at 11:26 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: You can keep asserting that as much as you want Drips, but it doesn't mean it's true. And I'll pass on the God thing. If he wants me to believe he can come find me.
let me know that works out for ya