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Can Science Rule Out God

Shaul

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
Science cannot rule out the existence of God nor of fairies, although it is up to perceptible evidence to prove them.
Nor can science rule out love, poetry, art, justice, unicorns, “coolness”, beauty nor a host of other things, some of which are genuinely true and some false. In other words, science can’t prove nor disprove G-d. Because G-d is not beholden to, not subordinate to science. Science can only “rule out” things subject to its domain.
 

randix

Member
Nor can science rule out love, poetry, art, justice, unicorns, “coolness”, beauty nor a host of other things, some of which are genuinely true and some false.
Of course. Neither science nor faith can rule out the existence of the Sun for example, because its existence and many of its characteristics have been proven by evidence.

Both domains (science and religion) are subject to question and to evidence. If a god exists, evidence of some type for that god must also exist somewhere within reality, whether we are aware of it or not. But until we are aware of the evidence, the question remains open: faith cannot close nor answer the question.
 
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Audie

Veteran Member
Yes, it is about time that people stop trying to say that science has anything to say about the validity of G-d.

Oh now wait up a secs there bud. Science has a lot to say about the
validity of lo and many a claim about "god".

There is zero (0) (none, nada) actual physical evidence, nor
yet mathematical or solid philosophical evidence for this
supposed or any other "god".

The only known existence is in people's stories
about "it".

We now know better (some of us) than to think
stories like god throwing lightning or sending a
flood are true.

"God" has fairy tales, science has facts.

You got it kind of backwards.
"God" believers have nothing to say about the
validity of science v their fairy tales, as much
as they may rant about how they do have the
final word on what is so.

"Man says, God says" You know? :D
 

Shaul

Well-Known Member
Premium Member
If the discussion were only on that, there would not even
be a question let alone a discussion.

See "prove a negative". More news of the obvious.
No “prove a negative” is required. No scientific proving of G-d at all is required. G-d is not subject to science. Ergo no scientific validation of G-d is needed. Acceptance, or not, of G-d is strictly a matter of faith. But logically accepting that G-d is not subject to science is useful and efficacious.
 

Audie

Veteran Member
No “prove a negative” is required. No scientific proving of G-d at all is required. G-d is not subject to science. Ergo no scientific validation of G-d is needed. Acceptance, or not, of G-d is strictly a matter of faith. But logically accepting that G-d is not subject to science is useful and efficacious.

So you find news of the obvious useful. Terrif.
 

MonkeyFire

Well-Known Member
Then faith rules out science and there is holy war. You wouldn't want to risk a holy war, would ya?!
 
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Straw Dog

Well-Known Member
Science can never rule out God as long as believers and theologians keep moving the goalposts.

Interesting article, though. I can dig the more pantheistic interpretations, like the universe exists in its own right.
 

Milton Platt

Well-Known Member
That is true only if you could predict when and where such changes would take place. Try again.

Well, if we cannot ever detect the presence of a god, then why would the god matter to us at all? Even if it was doing something undetectable, we could simply ignore it. It would not be important to us.


But to get back to the topic of the thread....science has ruled out all sorts of gods in the past, and I think it possible can or has ruled out any of the currently proposed ones.
 

Jayhawker Soule

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Premium Member
Well, if we cannot ever detect the presence of a god, then why would the god matter to us at all? Even if it was doing something undetectable, we could simply ignore it.

You originally made a silly claim and you've been dancing around ever since. Be more careful next time.
 

rational experiences

Veteran Member
I ran across this article in Scientific American. It is written by a past editor of the Magazine, who now writes fiction, and is suprised that the concept of of God keeps arising in his own books.

Can Science Rule Out God?
We must understand the laws of nature before we can deduce their origins
Can Science Rule Out God?
A human being is living, as a self, after the life of an animal.

Science says as a human, my life is owned as a self, separate, just all multi animal life is, diverse, and I am living as a human self.

Where is God in that circumstance?

Science said we were standing on God.....a planet and a stone....a different body by his science thinking research and said our planet is different.

And in thinking I also said, and the thin cold gases that we live within once was hot and dense and owned more space.

So after they evolved and cooled in a spatial body that a scientist compared to self life, human, a womb.....said that I will name space as space. I will knowingly say that space is cold and pressure and both of those states allowed a planet to exist and for cooling to be exerted upon a hot creating history.

What a male human said and called it science.

So did science disprove God?

Ask a male what sort of thoughts do you personally own today?
A male said I think that human thought science tried to disprove God and have God removed by his science.

For what reason male scientist?

Because I did not want to be a human, I wanted to be a spirit, where I knowingly came from.

Why most humans believe in spirit.

Did God prove to you that it was original?

Yes, said a male, I taught self that God came from spirit, and the spirit that had released God and allowed space to exist proved itself...for it proved to me that God was original, for my own conscious higher state....in an evolved cold gas less space history could not remove its physical form, what I name in theory as de materialization of its MASS O removal by numbers, calculating light and time.

So I was proven wrong about God.

When a male says in science, as a male human owned invention that in science history he destroyed all life on Earth by trying to have God O physical mass removed.

Says in modern time, I remember that science as a pyramid is like my collider theme and I want to re invent it....and says string as spatial history. Earth gases in natural history owned a higher mass in space...and took up more space by being dense.

So we called that Scientist male human brotherhood Satan and said he burnt us all to death....and why Stephen Hawking who claimed that spatial formation in definition was actually Hell, was correct in his statements.

When a male says as a human, I am natural.
When a male says as a human, God is natural then that male will be telling the only truth that a human mind can tell. Talking only where he exists.
 

tas8831

Well-Known Member
I don't know about "rule out."

Perhaps 'not consider'?

Generally speaking, absence of evidence it not necessarily evidence of absence.

However, when one can find none of the evidence that should exist for a given phenomenon, were it to be considered real, I think it is the safe bet that it does not deserve consideration.
 
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