...be used to establish unambiguous proof for the existence of a god?
2006-11-28 21:22:02 · 18 answers · asked by Cornelius 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can't prove what's not there
2006-11-28 21:25:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 3⤋
It is for those who make the claim that there is a God to work that one out, when they do would they please inform the scientific community.
There is certainly no scientifically sound evidence for the existence of God just as there is no scientifically sound proof of the Celestial Teapot or of the Invisible Pink Unicorn, each of these is as likely or unlikely as the other.
Evolution is the best scientific theory we have to explain how life developed on our planet, evolution does not occur through chance but in response to changing environmental conditions and to competition.
Intelligent Design is not even a theory but a pseudoscientific hypothesis, it is wishful thinking not based on any evidenced proof that could be tested by the scientific method, ID is not science at all and is rejected by the scientific community. Demonstrably false, ID is merely a cynical ploy by religionists to try to subvert science and get religion back into the classroom through the back door.
2006-11-29 05:28:06 · answer #2 · answered by CHEESUS GROYST 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
If all the other answers don't make sense (evolution, darwinism etc.) then what is left is the truth. I am sure you will not take this answer to be unambiguous but it is still the truth.
I believe God created all that has ever been created.
I understand that if our gravity was changed 1 ten thousandth of 1 percent we could not have life on earth. It is perfect and balanced for life.
I understand that we have irreducibly complex machines in our bodies and this blows darwin out of the water.
I understand that we can know about DNA and amino acid sequences so this blow evolution and chance out of the water.
I believe by faith in God, you can also believe first by science if you really seek the truth.
God Bless.
2006-11-29 05:42:11 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The scientific method could prove the existence of god easily. Using the scientific method we can study prayer and it's effects..so far the god hypothesis has miserably failed all those tests.
There are any number of claims in the holy books that science can and has looked into and not a shred of evidence supports the god hypothesis at all.
2006-11-29 05:34:37 · answer #4 · answered by AiW 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You cannot use science in that way. Science by definition must use observable facts or events to describe reality, and in so doing still would have trouble giving unambiguous proof of existence, let alone god.
2006-11-29 05:28:59 · answer #5 · answered by michaelsan 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It can't.
Science is the attempt to explain empirical phenomena by means of physical laws causing those phenomena. (That bit is almost universally agreed upon).
A key criterion of science is that those laws should be falsifiable. (That's getting more and more agreed upon - but it isn't there yet).
God is not a physical phenomena and is not subject to falsification. So as soon as you start looking at God its not science anymore. Why can't you paint Beethoven's Fifth Symphony? Because as soon as you pick up the brush you're not playing music anymore, you're painting.
As soon as you start talking non-physical your not talking science anymore.
Now you may be able to prove the existence of God but you won't be using science to do it.
2006-11-29 05:44:25 · answer #6 · answered by anthonypaullloyd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
first you need to formulate a test of the hypothesis of God. Why you would want to consider this hypothesis is beyond me though. It solves no problems and generates no knowledge. There is no evidence to support it in any way. If anybody could provide one shred of evidence then there might be something to work with but until then God remains just an unnecessary hypothesis.
2006-11-29 05:29:34 · answer #7 · answered by Barabas 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to Hume's fork, god is in the abstract, and the existence of the abstract cannot be proved, since god is an idea, not a reality.
2006-11-29 05:32:50 · answer #8 · answered by Bhagwad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure that it ever will ...
i dont feel that God is as present in this world as some imagine ... therefore cannot be measured in any scientific ways
i do feel however that science is working more with the " paranormal " and providing some nice results
this evidence may be suggestive of a creator ... but i think suggestive is perhaps the closest we will get to proof
2006-11-29 05:25:35 · answer #9 · answered by Peace 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Excellent Scientific Site, pl visit.
http://www.hyahya.org/
2006-11-29 05:26:12 · answer #10 · answered by A2Z 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
When something like DNA is so complex, there is no way it happened by chance.
We live on a planet teeming with life. Plant life with approximately 250,000 species. Animal life with over a million species. Scientist are learning just how complex life is. So complex that it requires design. The evidence of design requires a designer. Scientists are also learning the conditions for life, just how perfect conditions here on planet Earth are to support all this life.
To think, people believe this all happened by chance. Yes the odds are 1 in 1(with a billion trillion zeros behind it). Yes it is a belief by many that this all just happened by chance. That belief takes a greater faith than believing in a Creator. A virtual impossibility is an impossibility.
2006-11-29 05:25:42 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋