Religion is a hypothesis.

Discussion in 'Religion and Spirituality' started by walter4, Nov 29, 2009.

  1. As an ex-monk been there done that.

    I just offered those suggested questions if you wanted the possibility of fruitful results.

    Of course we all know certain posters (you being one of them) seek nothing other than to belittle others for their beliefs and conclusions.

    sad really
     
    #131     Dec 1, 2009
  2. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    That's your comeback to all I wrote? Pity. I expected more.


    "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that we've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the new bamboozles rise.)" -- Carl Sagan
     
    #132     Dec 1, 2009
  3. Evidence in hard science genuinely matters.

    Cosmology and the big bang theory is not hard science, it is nothing more than the guess of scientists.

    There is no way to test or disprove the theory, any more than there is a test or a method of proving/disproving God...

    It is useless as science, but it gives comfort to the atheists, so it ain't all bad...even atheists need a religion...apparently.

     
    #133     Dec 1, 2009
  4. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    Every scientific theory is falsifiable, including the Big Bang theory.

    Your claim that atheists make a "religion" out of cosmology makes no sense.

    What is it, the lack of exactness that bothers you? Most sciences are inexact in some area of study. Only mathematics is always exact.
     
    #134     Dec 1, 2009
  5. ...exactly how to you falsify the big bang theory?

    *Hint: The big bang could still be true without an expanding universe.

    So math is the only hard science?

    ROTFLMAO...

     
    #135     Dec 1, 2009
  6. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    Ask an astrophysicist.

    And I don't know of any atheist, myself included, who'd lose it if the Big Bang theory was falsified. But I know plenty of theists who'd lose it if their God was falsified.

    So what exactly is your point?
     
    #136     Dec 1, 2009
  7. So you don't know...

    LOL!!!

    Exactly how would God be falsified?

     
    #137     Dec 1, 2009
  8. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    Why should I answer your questions when you refuse to answer mine? This conversation has become pointless.
     
    #138     Dec 1, 2009
  9. So you can't answer the question...

    LOL!!!

     
    #139     Dec 1, 2009
  10. kut2k2

    kut2k2

    The same way you falsify any other testable hypothesis: by finding evidence that contradicts it.
    Depends on what you mean by "God".

    Some gods are readily falsifiable (and already have been falsified); others may not be falsifiable. Different theists have different concepts of gods.

    Let me simplify this for you:

    Deism is not falsifiable. Deism requires faith, but it doesn't require blind faith.

    But most theisms make extravagant creation and post-creation claims about their gods and they are, for the most part, easily falsifiable. Most theisms require blind faith; their believers are willfully ignorant of all evidence that contradicts their beliefs. I'm pretty sure yours is one of them, given your desperate attempt to equate belief in the Big Bang theory with belief in "God" (whatever that is :p).

    Define your "God" if you dare, then we can talk about falsifiability.
     
    #140     Dec 2, 2009