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okay i see what you're saying... maybe it's best to differentiate between a scientific belief in something and what i see as a religious or superstitious belief in something...
the methodology of science is brilliant. like it really is.. for anything to become accepted in a 'scientific community' it has to withstand the test of time. a scientist proposes a theory or hypnosis and everyone else scrabbles around in an attempt to DISPROVE it. it's a very competitive field, any shoddy research or corner cutting soon becomes apparent. after a long time this 'theory' very hesitantly comes to be known as a fact... this happened with say the theory of gravity.. it took many decades for the theory to take hold as the scientific world gradually came round to the conclusion that Newton was 'onto something'.
so science can obviously be wrong and unreliable. but it's method is fantastic. it freely admits when it's wrong and holds it's hand up when it doesn't understand something. like recently with the Hadron collider experiment in Europe... the scientist collected data which didn't make sense (somehow a particle could travel faster than light) now instead of getting all defensive over their experiment or jumping to conclusions they admitted what they saw they didn't understand and threw the question out to the world's scientific community for suggestions
now religion and 'spiritual phenomena' is different. These often revolve around individual stories and experiences, mostly word of mouth.. people LOOK for evidence to support what they've seen and often ignore or dismiss evidence which contradicts their experience. as i mentioned before i use to be into 'psychic stuff'... i loved it... read up as much as i could about strange and unexplained happenings... it's addictive.. but ultimately only revolves around a certain (unreliable) type of evidence
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What sort of evidence are you requiring to believe in God?
to me at least this is a rather big claim.. so naturally i'd like big evidence to support to claim
Why are you requiring it?
because it's nice to be right...??
the methodology of science is brilliant. like it really is.. for anything to become accepted in a 'scientific community' it has to withstand the test of time. a scientist proposes a theory or hypnosis and everyone else scrabbles around in an attempt to DISPROVE it. it's a very competitive field, any shoddy research or corner cutting soon becomes apparent. after a long time this 'theory' very hesitantly comes to be known as a fact... this happened with say the theory of gravity.. it took many decades for the theory to take hold as the scientific world gradually came round to the conclusion that Newton was 'onto something'.
so science can obviously be wrong and unreliable. but it's method is fantastic. it freely admits when it's wrong and holds it's hand up when it doesn't understand something. like recently with the Hadron collider experiment in Europe... the scientist collected data which didn't make sense (somehow a particle could travel faster than light) now instead of getting all defensive over their experiment or jumping to conclusions they admitted what they saw they didn't understand and threw the question out to the world's scientific community for suggestions
now religion and 'spiritual phenomena' is different. These often revolve around individual stories and experiences, mostly word of mouth.. people LOOK for evidence to support what they've seen and often ignore or dismiss evidence which contradicts their experience. as i mentioned before i use to be into 'psychic stuff'... i loved it... read up as much as i could about strange and unexplained happenings... it's addictive.. but ultimately only revolves around a certain (unreliable) type of evidence
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What sort of evidence are you requiring to believe in God?
to me at least this is a rather big claim.. so naturally i'd like big evidence to support to claim
Why are you requiring it?
because it's nice to be right...??