My Flashlight Challenge

[AV1611VET]

Can science PROVE a negative?

If you say NO, I would like to submit this as proof that an object isn't running off of AC:

If you still say NO, I submit you are just saying it on principle.

Discuss please.

 

[HoleyHermit]

Maybe they really mean to say that if science can't prove A to be true, that doesn't necessarily mean that A is false.

 

[AV1611VET]

Maybe they really mean to say that if science can't prove A to be true, that doesn't necessarily mean that A is false.

But that deals with proving something true, which is another claim of theirs that's different from this one.

I'm talking about their claim that you can't prove a negative.

 

[quatona]

Can science PROVE a negative?

Such as: There has never been a global flood?

 

[Strathos]

As long as something isn't a logical impossibility, it can't be considered absolutely 100% proven.

For all you know, flashlights never existed and you just imagined them. And you're imagining reading this post right now.

 

[quatona]

Can science PROVE a negative?

With there being a God who "cleans up" after Himself, no.

 

[VirOptimus]

Can science PROVE a negative?

If you say NO, I would like to submit this as proof that an object isn't running off of AC:

If you still say NO, I submit you are just saying it on principle.

Discuss please.

You are using terms in a very unscientific way when asking a philosophical question.

Science is a method of describing physical reality and as such can falsify statements about physical reality that are untrue (like for example a worldwide flood).

 

[AV1611VET]

Such as: There has never been a global flood?

The goal of this thread is to give some dignity to Egyptian (worldly) science by legitimizing the challenge: "Prove God doesn't exist."

 

[AV1611VET]

As long as something isn't a logical impossibility, it can't be considered absolutely 100% proven.

For all you know, flashlights never existed and you just imagined them. And you're imagining reading this post right now.

I have no idea what you just said.

 

[AV1611VET]

You are using terms in a very unscientific way when asking a philosophical question.

Science is a method of describing physical reality and as such can falsify statements about physical reality that are untrue (like for example a worldwide flood).

So is that a YES or a NO to my OP?

 

[quatona]

The goal of this thread is to give some dignity to Egyptian (worldly) science by legitimizing the challenge: "Prove God doesn't exist."

The problem with disproving God´s existence is that believers define "God" into unfalsifiability.
So your flashlight thing is completely irrelevant for that.

 

[Tanj]

Can science PROVE a negative?

No

If you say NO, I would like to submit this as proof that an object isn't running off of AC:

Well, that's one flashlight. Now prove it for every flashlight in existence.

 

[AV1611VET]

The problem with disproving God´s existence is that believers define "God" into unfalsifiability.

Then don't try to disprove God's existence.

Instead, prove He doesn't exist: then there would be nothing left to falsify.

Better yet, answer the OP.

 

[AV1611VET]

Well, that's one flashlight. Now prove it for every flashlight in existence.

Just one will do ... thanks.

Once you've proven the one in the OP, you've broken the mold.

 

[Tanj]

Not how it works, but thanks for playing.

 

[quatona]

Then don't try to disprove God's existence.

Instead, prove He doesn't exist: then there would be nothing left to falsify.

 

[VirOptimus]

So is that a YES or a NO to my OP?

I answered your OP.

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Can science PROVE a negative?

If you say NO, I would like to submit this as proof that an object isn't running off of AC:

If you still say NO, I submit you are just saying it on principle.

Discuss please.

That negative is not demonstrated, let alone proven, by science.

It is also patently obvious you don't understand what is meant by proving a negative. It's a philosophical problem, not a scientific one.

 

[EpiscipalMe]

Of course you can't prove that God doesn't exist.

You also can't prove that God does exist.

We Christians believe in God because we have faith, not scientific proof.

 

[Norbert L]

Of course you can't prove that God doesn't exist.

You also can't prove that God does exist.

We Christians believe in God because we have faith, not scientific proof.

I as a Christian as well as many others have faith that the events which took place and are reported about surrounding the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are true. That during that time some people made the observation that they could see, talk to and touch Jesus after His public execution. Of course people are free to reject such claims because how can you do that kind observation now, since He hasn't made a public appearance since then.