(January 31, 2015 at 7:47 am)robvalue Wrote: God can't lose under these criteria, so it's not science. It's a pretense of testing, with a pre drawn conclusion, to make you feel better.
Here in America, a commonly-heard apologetic is that God is not to be tested -- that that amounts to unfaithfulness -- and perhaps it does. But the beliefs I was programmed with as a youth positively forbade checking the results of prayer, meaning that there could be no reasonable assessment at all.