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AMA | March 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Beyond Falsifiability

In a beyond falsifiability world view, where does the hypothesis of a supernatural god fit philosophically? I know you consider it a bad hypothesis, but it isn't a scientific one. The supernatural and gods are typically dispensed with as non scientific because they are non falsifiable. Is positing a god somehow less scientific than hypothesizing what is beyond the edge of the observable universe or inside a black hole?

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