(April 16, 2014 at 4:50 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: You said
(April 14, 2014 at 9:10 am)Chas Wrote: Then that god has no effect on us. Any effect would be detectable.Suppose that one in one-octillion water molecules will carry a magical aura that can cure illnesses. The occasional sick person drinks one of these magical molecules and then recovers.
No effects? No god.
Medical scientists, being reasonable people, attribute this to what they already know exists—water—concluding that water speeds up recovery. Does that mean the magical aura has no effects, or that it doesn't exist?
That is one weird, flawed argument. If one in one octillion water molecules is 'magic', then it is not not common
There are approximately 3.34E25 molecules of water per liter, so one would need to drink, on average, nearly 3000 liters of water to get a magic molecule. The correlation would not be made.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
