God is scientifically real.
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In the same sense that unicorns are scientifically real. Sure, if you ignore all the details, you may find stuff that looks like a god or a unicorn. But they would be, respectively, confirmation bias and a rhinoceros.
Chillturtleguy is scientifically unreal.
But actually, if there was evidence I might happily believe. It turns out that in all the religious literature I've read plus my own experimentation, pseudoscientific, metaphysics arguments, philosophy and magic models of the world failed.
In the firehose of arguments, those that are partly true turn out to be better explained, at the same time shown to be inaccurate.
If ignorance or intellectual dishonesty is required to believe, for me that's bogus. Then there are all the other problems, if a creator was really there. Probably that most here are already familiar with those...
It’s trivially easy to prove, scientifically, that a lot of people *claim* to believe that God is real. Actually proving that a lot of people *do* believe God is real, as they claim, would require extensive neurological scanning, and no one’s ever tried because we all kind of just take it for granted. That wouldn’t prove that said belief is correct, or even justified regardless or correctness. You need to, like, actually produce God so we can study his realness or lack thereof.
<@KeithInc. > #242460
Exactly. Of course if there was evidence of existence, it's likely that science could attempt to describe it, but until then, that it is outside of the universe as we know it remains the best justification for belief: whenever pseudoscientific arguments are made, they become open to scrutiny and their fallacies can be exposed. For me that's evidence that it's imaginary and humanities/social sciences can of course theorize on the psychology, just like historians can study the origins and development of traditions and scripture, philosophy can classify and discuss doctrines...
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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