Is there a good reason to believe in the untestable?

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Is there a good reason to believe in the untestable?

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twobitsmedia wrote:I agree that God is not testable by scientific methodology. That is the failure of science in that is is unable to test Spirit. That, to me, does not mean God is not fact. It just means he is not testable by those methods. Those who require evidence for faith want the testable scientific God, or so they say. As a philosophy major I would question any educational organization that exempts philosophizing about God. Many Greek philosophers did.
Is there a good reason to believe that an untestable proposition is true?
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QED wrote: Just so long as people don't continue to insist that an apparent creation is evidence of a creator, then they're welcome to their faith.
Yeah, those silly, silly archaeologists :roll:

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Fisherking wrote:
QED wrote: Just so long as people don't continue to insist that an apparent creation is evidence of a creator, then they're welcome to their faith.
Yeah, those silly, silly archaeologists :roll:
The comparison you have drawn between the unearthing of archaeological artefacts and the cosmos as whole rests on having good reasons to infer ID in the latter. In the case of Archaeology there are unambiguous signs of human intellect in the adaptation and forging of materials. Your sarcasm hinges around there being equally unambiguous signs of intelligence in the creation of the cosmos. This "Big News Story" has yet to be posted outside of Church.

Let me remind you that the adjective "Apparent" entered our vocabulary to describe the way things may appear to be but are not necessarily so. Your approach seems to be to take everything "at face value". Before we gave up doing this, we thought the Sun revolved around a flat Earth.

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