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Old 13-July-2004, 05:52 PM
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Originally Posted by beskeptical
The idea you can never prove it one way or the other, to me, is just a rhetorical way of dancing around a sticky subject. With the correct choice of criteria, we can test the 'theory' of a god just as we can test the theory of quantum mechanics.
I think you're wrong there.
Why? I think she's wrong too, but it's just a "gut feeling", and that does us no good. 8)
I think I can clarify: Yes, there may be some criteria under which you could test a "theory of god," but those criterea won't necessarily lend themselves to testing. Yeah, that wouldn't make them good criteria, but I'd be surprised if testable criteria exist.