It's true, Yip, I'm just playing here and I truly hope that you're not offended by this. Is the infallibility of the Bible so integral to your faith? If so, why? Also, if your faith were shaken would you be in crisis? It seems that you're already full of doubt. I'm full of doubt about my agnosticism. At times it seems obvious to me that there is what we can only call God but I'm troubled by my inability to either prove or disprove it logically or make a leap of faith in any direction. Hans
Interesting quote. The operative word here is "extraordinary". Any proof in this instance would be extraordinary.
I wasn't going to get involved in this until someone started attacking science again. None of these you listed are "believed" by anybody. They are some of the hypotheses that scientists are working very hard to try to disprove. This is what separates faith from science. In science, every hypothesis can be proven false. In faith, you just believe it is true.
That works to both prove or disprove God. And it is probably similar to prolife/prochoice. No amount of efforts from one side will likely convince the other
I think his point is that God planted the dinosaur fossils to trick us into believing that earth is more than 6000 years old when in fact it isn't.
AI! Math of Possibility! Ye gads! Sounds like you're more qualified to answer your question than anybody else on ET. Let me ask you a few questions, Yip. Is QM perspectival? Does it describe nature or merely our capacity to know nature? Re the Uncertainty Principle: Uncertainty is a state of mind - can there be 'uncertainty' in nature or does QM merely measure the degree of uncertainty in the mind of the unbiased observer dependent on his QM model? Re MWI. Is the multiverse merely an artefact arising out of the the QM model but having no equivalent in nature? Lastly, do you think AI may be capable of bringing into being devices that have consciousness? Easy - I have a few credits in university math but that was a while ago. I know that the jury's out on most of these questions; I just want your opinion.
You need to get some education, dude. A hypothesis is a guess. A theory is a hypothesis that scientists have failed to prove false. In science, every hypothesis can be proven false. If you don't know that, then you don't know science. The starting point of science is to assume that everything and anything can be wrong. That is definitely not the starting point of any religion that I know. You are not just showing your ignorance of science. You are also showing your ignorance of religion.
It's impossible to "disprove" god. Why? Those that claim god exists fail to define it in such a way as to allow for a test of their claim. Not only that but those that insist that God exists do so without testable proof to themselves. So you have to ask, who seems rational and who seems irrational? Those that claim something exists while unable to prove it to themselves or those that claim something doesn't exist because there's no testable proof that it does? If I say, "the world is a benevolent giant mothra that dances in a circle around a great light in the night void" will you take me seriously or would you dismiss me as irrational? Though I've metaphorically described the Earth revolving around the sun in space, the fact that I made the earth out to be some kind of living being should strike you as problematic. Would you even bother to ask me for proof?