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Originally Posted by crukster
I think a lot of people would want to and a lot of people consider a lack of evidence as disproof, which isn't true. You'd have to rival God to disprove God, and then just relinquish the title of God if anyone starts worshipping you.
But the fact that's an unachievable goal is definitly some sort of evidence of our limitation, which just makes it a bit stupid that anyone mocks anyone else's beliefs.
I'm not saying God is a dude or dudette in the sky who magically builds things with a pair of boxing gloves, just that if you consider what I said about limitation, maybe some World religion holds the personified answers to the perfect Scientific explanation of God.
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The thing to me is .. This idea that you can't prove/disprove anything is not a new idea to me. It may seem fresh to you because you are young (I guess?), but it's a fairly established principle, also in science. This line of thinking is what made Descartes propose his famous statement
Cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. It was the only thing he knew for sure. Everything else, even so called "proof" could be f.ex figments of his imagination without him knowing.
Science accepts this and doesn't actually work by proving things
in that way. What you do in science is you define a limit to what you want to accept as true and then you stick to that. Example, if you want to say that americans are taller than japanese, then you test that and if your statistics show that the statement is likely to be true with more than 95% certainty, then you accept the statement as true. But, you are of course open to the possibility that the statement may be disproved in the future.
Another way to establish truth in science is by gaining support from other studies, observations and other tested hypotheses. The number of tested hypotheses which support the modern idea of evolution f.ex is so staggering that the theory as a whole is accepted as scientific truth. Of course, if you want to nitpick, there's always the slightest chance evolution does not exist, just like there is a chance God exists.
