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Show me how to test God scientifically
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<blockquote data-quote="Code-Monkey" data-source="post: 16016917"><p>Right. Science is in the business of providing natural explanations. Even if the cause is a super-natural cause, as long as there's a preceeding natural correllation that can be predicted, science will only point to the natural correllation. Some people will then point to those natural correllations and claim that they actually <em>cause</em> the thing to happen. But in this case they would be wrong. And even if there were a supernatural cause and NO correllation between other natural events, then some scientific philosophers might claim there is NO cause, rather it just happens on it's own. But that claim leaves the realm of science and enters philosophy at that point.</p><p></p><p>The bottom line is science is a failure of a method when it comes to observing God directly. In the same way, looking at my programs I write is a really poor way to find out about me, the programmer.</p><p></p><p>As someone mentioned, you could try to do an experiment on God by looking at "prayer" and testing which patient is God going to heal... but that would be testing a very narrow bit of theology that almost no world religions hold. But again, science is just really designed for a specific set of problems, it doesn't at all begin to address the entirety of what is true and what isn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Code-Monkey, post: 16016917"] Right. Science is in the business of providing natural explanations. Even if the cause is a super-natural cause, as long as there's a preceeding natural correllation that can be predicted, science will only point to the natural correllation. Some people will then point to those natural correllations and claim that they actually [i]cause[/i] the thing to happen. But in this case they would be wrong. And even if there were a supernatural cause and NO correllation between other natural events, then some scientific philosophers might claim there is NO cause, rather it just happens on it's own. But that claim leaves the realm of science and enters philosophy at that point. The bottom line is science is a failure of a method when it comes to observing God directly. In the same way, looking at my programs I write is a really poor way to find out about me, the programmer. As someone mentioned, you could try to do an experiment on God by looking at "prayer" and testing which patient is God going to heal... but that would be testing a very narrow bit of theology that almost no world religions hold. But again, science is just really designed for a specific set of problems, it doesn't at all begin to address the entirety of what is true and what isn't. [/QUOTE]
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