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Originally posted by BigJustinW
Ugh... if you haven't experimented with somthing yourself, how can you prove somthing?
You have a hypotesis.... you've made predictions, but you haven't tested them. 2 out of 4 steps.
Now, tell me again, why don't you believe in God?
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You're making a tautological argument. Look over my post again. I never said that I could prove that God
doesn't exist. I only said that it can't be proven to my satisfaction that He
does.
Besides, you applied the scientific method the wrong way. A hypothesis in this case would be something like, "There is some being called God who is all powerful and all knowing. Furthermore, God has at some point in time and perhaps still does intervene in the universe."
The second point is crucial. After all, it's one thing to believe God exists. However, people who believe in God also believe that He has taken action sometime, if only to create the universe. I don't think anybody believes God exists but has for all eternity just been sitting around doing nothing while the universe did its own thing. If you do, then the argument is absolutely pointless since there's no way of looking at the universe for evidence of God's existence.
So, if he has taken some kind of action, that means there is something in the universe that can only be explained by the statement "an all powerful, all knowing being called God did it."
And that's where we come around again to the original quandary. Is there really something out there that can only be explained by God's existence? I believe there is not. You believe there is. And that's why you can't perform an experiment. In order to get results, you'd have to examine every single thing in the universe to determine whether or not you can explain it with a coherent theory that does not include God. You obviously can't do that.
You'll be tempted to say, "Well, then how did the universe get started?" or "How did the particles that make us up come into existence?" or something like that. And my answer is that I don't know. But a thousand years ago, we didn't know why things fall either. Today, we now have the theory of gravity. I believe that if the human race survives long enough, we will eventually have a sensible theory that explains how the universe got started. You believe that we will never have such a theory.
And there's no way for either of us to know which one is right. We just have to choose what feels right.