Does the science prove negatives?
Interesting to note that the afterlife actually has nothing to do with reality. I would welcome though, ediggity's offer of showing us this so-called reality.
While believers fail at logic and rationale every step of the way, we can offer believers their own brand of logic to refute their gods existence based on eddigity's rationale.
We have tested for his god, but all tests have come up negative. Hence, his god does not exist. The negative has been proven.
Q.uod E.rat D.emonstrandum.
Wow, great science without a test.
You only further prove my point. Sad, but thank you anyway.
It would appear ediggity is not interested in hearing anything other than his own voice. As usual.
Nope, not interested in philosophy at all. Only science and religion. Neither of which you make valid points in.
Yes, I understand you're not interested in that which threatens your beliefs. And, you will dismiss everything that does our of hand, right on time and right on queue.
Considering that I have refuted the existence of your god using YOUR own brand of logic must be infuriating so much that those are the only responses you've been able to muster...
... right on time and right on queue.Please refer to the title of the thread. "Does science prove negatives?" not "Does philosophy prove negatives, or that something doesn't exist"
I have no "brand of logic" I used actual scientific examples, to prove that negatives can be proven.
You substituted YOUR philosophy, with no actual scientific test. Nothing to surprising.
Stick with philosophy.I do understand that you're unable to think beyond the scope of your belief system and are pretending there is some other reality that holds your beliefs where up is down and black is white. Failure on your part to demonstrate this reality has in no way precluded your failure to respond with an argument in kind.
Quite true, we are free to bring into existence any and all musings from the imagination that we want and are free to believe in the existence of these imaginative beings with little care of anyone else who might question them.
For example, I could quite easily claim that it was I who slew the Jabberwock, unfortunately, we ate it afterward so there is no evidence for its existence.
What nonsense. These are positives.
The Star Goat vomited the Universe 12,000 years ago.
Prove it did not.
Go!
And, using your brand of faith based logic, science has proven the non existence of your god.
You're right. I hadn't realised you were arguing in pursuit of such a small trivial point. Bu OK, if tautology floats your boat, bask in it, with my blessing
Dear me.
The Star Goat vomited the Universe 12,000 years ago.
Please prove this not to be true.
Go!
This is the problem when people confuse baseless philosophical claims with reality.
As Paraglider pointed out - "It is impossible to prove non-existence of something."And this post is the result of blind faith in science confused with religion.
So - you cannot prove the Star Goat does not exist? Why not? Science proves negatives all the time.
Look everyone. It's the philosophy tag team. Took you a little while to get in the ring.
Lol, not defensive, you're just predictable that's all.
Yes and no. And, the reason the answer is split is because the word "negative" is being used in varying degrees of context.
Yes, science can show a null result. In other words, the effect predicted in the hypothesis did not occur. This could be considered a "negative" result, one that did not agree with the prediction as opposed to a positive result, one that agreed with the prediction.
No, science cannot prove a negative in that science cannot claim that something doesn't exist. It simply isn't a claim that science can make due to the possibility and probability that such things can exist, however small and infinitesimal those odds can be.
Perhaps, we haven't the ability or capacity to check out some parts of our own galaxy to see if unicorns and leprechauns do in fact exist somewhere on a distant planet we have yet to discover, happily frolicking or maybe at war with each other.
No one really knows for sure, science included.
Ah, I see you are an advocate for dictatorship and autocratic society based entirely on YOUR set of beliefs thus leaving the rest of us with no rights of our own. We are forced to forfeit the freedom to challenge the ideals in light of the sheer magnitude of failure they achieved in their delivery.
We are but slaves to your commands, in essence.
So sorry, but the funding required to prove your god doesn't exist was routed to finance the ongoing search for Santa Claus, his Reindeer and Elves, last reported missing from Islam.
Yet still you have no reason or logic to disprove the Star Goat. Science only proves that which exists. Of course it cannot ascertain existence of your non-existent god.
There is only One Star Goat.
We all know intuitively that the Star Goat vomited the Universe 12,000 years ago. Only delusional fools deny this self-evident Truth. They do this because they have no morals or ethics and wish to idolize a false Man-god and get divorces. Sad.
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