A higher power did let me know it exists with absolute evidence - I've experienced two miracles.
A yet there is no way for you to prove that is not total bullshit, so I don't believe you.
Sludge writes:
And how would you define "reality"? Wait, let me guess ... reality is defined by the parameters of science.
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "the parameters of science." You're not a very good guesser.
I think reality is everything that is not imaginary or supernatural.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
I know this was directed at Dredge but im curious what its about.
Add By Edit: Wow! Quite a taunting little video...does even Dredge deserve it? Also, I hope no one also thinks of me in this context.
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox
“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).
quoteA parameter, generally, is any characteristic that can help in defining or classifying a particular system. That is, a parameter is an element of a system that is useful, or critical, when identifying the system, or when evaluating its performance, status, condition, etc. Wikipedia
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox
“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894).
So the parameters of science are everything that has to do with science, for short we can just call it science, parameters is just redundant.
Stop Tzar Vladimir the Condemned!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
Wow! Quite a taunting little video...does even Dredge deserve it?
Most especially Dredge (AKA Sludge).
These things have been explained to him repeatedly for many months, yet he just keeps on posting the same stupid BS nonsense. He is being most stubbornly willfully stupid about everything, reverting to stupid taunts repeatedly. IOW, he is a typical troll serving his stupid little troll-god (not to be confused with any actual version of the "Christian God" despite Sludge possibly thinking that his god is the same).
That video offers Sludge too much respect, vastly more respect than he deserves.
Also, I hope no one also thinks of me in this context.
At least you will try to engage in actual discussion. Sludge never has and never will. He is far less than a bottom-feeding troll. You are not, regardless of how frustrating you can be at times.
I'm afraid it is about proof. The statement, "I know that God does not exist" carries with it the burden of proof. If I declared, "I know that Santa Claus does not exist", I would then be expected to prove that Santa does not exist ... otherwise I would rightly be viewed as a bs-artist.
There's this thread's title, "I know that God does not exist," and you've added the example, "I know Santa Claus does not exist." Someone might responds, "Oh yeah? Well prove it!"
What happens next is not a proof. Proofs are the realm of the mathematical. Generally when people use words like "know" or "proof" they're not using them in any strict absolutist sense. You hear the word "prove" a lot in casual conversation, and it is very rare that it is used in the sense of establishing truth through evidence or argument. They just mean they've got good reasons or evidence for what they're saying. The word "prove" has no place at all in science. If "truth" is recognized as timeless then science can never prove the truth of anything.
Concerning the word "know", often when people use it they only mean they're cognizant or aware or have information, as in the casual, "I know how to drive." Certainly there are other times when they might use the word in the sense that you're using it, that they have knowledge of a fact or truth, like, "I know Trump won the 2016 election." But you're insisting that every time anyone here uses the word know that they must be using that second definition, and that's simply untrue. And of course there's a spectrum of meaning governed by context.
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