2007-04-11 06:53:28 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I suppose facts dont have to be provable.
2007-04-11 06:58:07 · update #1
No, facts do not have to be proveable. For example, there is a certain number of craters on the moon. I don't know what that number is, and neither does anyone else. We may well never know. But if I write a series of sentences like the following, one of them is true, describing a fact, and the others are all false:
There are no craters on the moon.
There is exactly one crater on the moon.
There are exactly two craters on the moon.
There are exactly three craters on the moon.
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However, Christians who claim that it's a fact that God exists are just babbling incoherently.
2007-04-11 06:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Actual facts do need to be provable. Assumptions masquerading as fact are often taken by it's believers as self-evident.
2007-04-11 14:11:45 · answer #2 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only a very arrogant and ignorant person would claim to have proved the existence or non-existence of god. I imagine many people do this anyways, if only in an attempt to validate their own beliefs. I believe my personal beliefs are substantiated enough for me to consider them truth, and semi-proved, but I would never rationally claim to have completely proved the non-existence of anything.
2007-04-11 14:02:09 · answer #3 · answered by manic.fruit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The definition of a fact is that it has been proven.
They may believe god exists for a fact but in a court of law their case would be thrown out on the basis of no evidence
God isn't even a theory, because a theory has proven experiments
God is a hypothesis, no more
2007-04-11 13:57:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
If I say a tail is a leg, a dog still only has four legs, not five.
In the same way, calling something a fact does not make it a fact. And that's my opinion.
2007-04-11 13:59:57 · answer #5 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
why would they have to be provable, Christians are so brainwashed, example, tell a christian that the door you are by has wet paint on it, they will touch it and check, tell them it is raining, they go outside to look, tell them god is in heaven and he loves them, and they will say, YES, PRAISE GOD, I BELIEVE.
2007-04-11 14:08:20 · answer #6 · answered by Heather 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God exists because of www.compasison.org and the tv show planet earth on the discovery channel.
2007-04-11 14:07:16 · answer #7 · answered by he>i 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a fact: You will know the answer to you own question soon enough.
Jesus saves!
2007-04-11 14:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was taught it. . .I did however, question it. It is wrong to assume that Christians have never sought other answers. I have studied and searched for other answers not wanting to ride on the coat tails of what my parent's believed.
Today I can stand here and tell you it is so that God exists. I talk to Him, I hear Him and I have watched Him move in my life. . .therefore I know. :)
2007-04-11 13:59:38 · answer #9 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
They have been effectively brainwashed to believe that tripe. All understanding of logic and reason are wiped out of their heads.
2007-04-11 14:09:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋