RE: Question about "faith"
September 24, 2020 at 10:47 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2020 at 12:46 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 24, 2020 at 10:11 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: Sure, but scientists don't write up 1000 stupid hypotheses and then go about attempting to falsify them.
Science progresses through conjecture and refutation. By conjecturing you are in fact coming up with 1,000 different propositions and attempting to refute them.
Conjecture is by it's very nature inductive, it goes beyond what you know. You are free to think outside the box. Once a theory is formulated, hypotheses are deduced, and experiments are conducted to falsify the conjecture.
To approach God scientifically you need to start with God first, and then attempt to falsify it. You cannot start from zero and attempt to prove your way up to God.
This is because you would be affirming the consequent in your experimental design: If you hypothesize that "If ghosts exists, then lights will flicker at the cemetery" and you take a light to the cemetery and it flickers, that information is insufficient to conclude ghosts exists because other explanations are possible (dead battery).
But if the light doesn't flicker at the cemetery, we can conclude that ghosts don't exist. For that reason science never aims to prove it aims to disprove.