RE: Question about "faith"
September 25, 2020 at 11:19 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2020 at 11:44 am by possibletarian.)
(September 25, 2020 at 10:23 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: People are stopped from doing so precisely because your conjecture must be refutable if it is to be scientific.
Exactly like your god then, you need to provide more than a assertion that he exists. In other words you can give as many reasons as you wish for a reason to believe, unfortunately reasons that cannot be falsified can neither be accepted as proof. Also there has to be something solid to refute, some convincing evidence perhaps or proof, none of which you have provided.
I think you mean falsifiable ? There are many things that are irrefutable, my guess is a supreme being that actually wants us to know him, would certainly be irrefutable.
(September 25, 2020 at 10:23 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: "The belief that science proceeds from observation to theory is still so widely and so firmly held that my denial of it is often met with incredulity [...] But in fact the belief that we can start with pure observation alone, without anything in the nature of a theory, is absurd." -Karl Popper.
But it must hit the ground with reality at some point, a theory without any means to test or observe remains a theory.
'Those who ask a lot of questions may seem stupid, but those who don't ask questions stay stupid'