(July 6, 2015 at 3:22 pm)pool Wrote:(July 6, 2015 at 3:17 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: There is no necessity to define all gods in order to understand that people with specified god beliefs fall under the heading of 'theist'.
Theism is a huge category, under which, the belief in many gods fall.
But if a set X is supposed to have only natural numbers and if a non-natural number belongs to X,that is,is an element of X.
Doesn't that mean that the definition of X is wrong?
Why do you imply that all the elements doesn't have to be natural numbers and the description of the set X as the set that consists of natural numbers would still hold in the event that a element x of X is identified as not a natural number?
This is mental masturbation. In real science the best way we have to obtain knowledge, is not through thought exercises, but taking an idea, collecting data, basing that method on prior established method, setting up control groups and testing and falsifying it, then handing your findings over to peers to see if they come up with the same conclusions.
No credible scientist I would call credible will ever or should ever claim to know everything. But we do not lose anything by giving up on bad claims. We actually retard progress by clinging to the past. Science as a method isn't out to prop up personal bias. It is a tool you use and when used properly, you go where the evidence leads, not where you want it to go.
It makes much more sense from what I know about evolution, and human history and our species notoriously flawed perceptions, that humans merely make up god claims.
