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Of course God is unfalsifiable

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-12 16:02

God's existence cannot be proven false.  Since God is unfalsifiable by definition, being unfalsifiable is a property of God's existence.  Since the statement God is unfalsifiable and cannot be disproven is accepted and supported by scientists and Atheists alike, then Occam's Razor shows the simplest explanation to be valid, since a defined and logical statement with scientific and academic consensus is more likely to be true than an argument against it. 

Calculus cannot be proven to be false.  Calculus doesn't wait for some physical evidence to appear and disprove it since Calculus is already logically defined.  We can't prove Calculus exists as a physical thing, but we know Calculus is valid.  Calculus uses self supporting axioms based on the unfalsifiable laws of logic, where abstract theorems do not require physical testability to be valid.  There are many invalid proofs by amateurs who try to disprove Calculus based on a limited understanding of Calculus and a desire to prove Calculus wrong, yet it doesn't matter if you choose not to believe in Calculus or if you declare all of it invalid simply because you don't like it, as such arguments will not make mathematicians everywhere drop the study of Calculus because you don't think it has sound logic.  No matter how you argue, Calculus cannot be falsified. 

Replacing Calculus with God's existence shows the same properties and the same reasons why arguments against them do not work.  Something can be both logically valid and non-falsifiable.

Name: Anonymous 2009-06-30 6:14

>>16
Who says he is African? And who says he is American? I could've been referring to a Sand Nigger, a Southern African Termite Nigger, a Chigger Nigger etc. There are a variety of species of Nigger.

>>17
Not all theories that are consistent/complete fall under Gödel's Paradox. As exciting as his incompleteness theorem is, it's given far more importance than what it really says. As an example of one of the many pitfalls in applying it, it only applies to Omega-consistent systems. The real numbers fail this system. Hell, any system with an uncountable number of objects with fail this condition because any counterexamples might just happen to not be one of the countably many statements in the theory.

Also, Calculus as taught for the first time in most university curricula is complete nonsense. It is not rigorous, and isn't even falsifiable since many of its concepts are ill-defined. You have to wait until a proper Real Analysis course to get a decent proof.

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