(June 11, 2015 at 1:55 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: I'm talking about scientific falsifiability, dingus. Your god-claims cannot be tested. You have no way of confirming them outside of personal feelings and experiences. It's unreasonable to accept your conclusion.
What specific claims can't be tested? That God exists?
From an article I just read...
While falsifiability is a useful way to evaluate a theory/belief, the merits of that theory/belief do not hang on its falsifiability. Its merits hang on the evidence in its favor. Theism has several lines of evidence in its favor. That body of evidence serves as the basis for a reasonable dialogue concerning the veridicality of theism.
More to the heart of the matter, falsifiability cannot be an appropriate test for theism because it is impossible to falsify a universal negative. And in order to falsify God’s existence, one would have to prove a universal negative: God does not exist.
https://theosophical.wordpress.com/2008/...e-so-what/