(February 3, 2015 at 10:16 am)Drich Wrote: ... while belief in God literally follows the definations provided by the term "empirical evidence," and on a personal level one can apply the 'scientific method' to what God provides you.Not even close. If you cannot show me, then it is not empirical. If it cannot be examined then it is not empirical. Let us have lunch sometime with a war veteran that is missing a limb and have your god regrow it on the spot. Now we have some empirical evidence that can be examined. It does not yet prove that god exits, but it does make the hypothesis plausible and worth investigating.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy