I was sent this, and...
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Well it amused me, anyway[^] Told you I'd be back, but I'll be doing it slowly - I have a backlog of several months worth of sleep to catch up on, and my concentration is a bit short as a result.
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Yet both statements "The Sun will rise tomorrow" and "Unicorns do not exist" may be, in principle, falsified by contrary experience. Similar statements about religion cannot be falsified, even in principle. In fact, I would say that the definition of a religious statement is one that cannot be falsified, even in principle.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
Yet both statements "The Sun will rise tomorrow" and "Unicorns do not exist" may be, in principle, falsified by contrary experience
Perhaps you did not understand what I posted. Your statement, in regards to me, is false. Because both are beliefs.
Daniel Pfeffer wrote:
I would say that the definition of a religious statement is one that cannot be falsified, even in principle.
Sometimes people attempt a 'scientific' or 'logical' proof to falsify god. Naturally those are always wrong. They can be dismissed immediately. (One might claim they are logically sound although I have not seen that but given that they are not just testing logic but attempting to actually prove god does not exist they are wrong.) There are many claimed proofs both scientific and logical which attempt to prove god. The scientific ones are nonsense. Often obviously scientifically flawed. Even ludicrously so. Certainly some of the logical ones are sound - not in proving god but rather in that they follow the rules of logic. Scientifically there are supernatural claims, some religious in nature, which have been falsified. Often, like the above they are obviously scientifically flawed even with a brief examination. But others can be tested. One of the skeptic magazines has been running/promoting a contest with a very large cash prize for a very long time. Many have applied. Few have actually proceeded to the test. Not surprisingly none have passed the test set up for their specific claim. One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge - Wikipedia[^] One of the more recent amusing articles in the skeptics magazine (I can't recall which one) actually enumerated things like how many had asked, then proceeded to request a test, then accepted the test and failed. Then broke it down by the types of claims. Either that article or another described how the testing was done for specific cases.
