Daily Defense Podcast
#348 God Is Unscientific? - Jimmy Akin
Dec 14, 2023
The podcast discusses the notion that belief in God is unscientific, explaining the different interpretations of the statement and arguing that it does not disqualify alternative means of proving God's existence.
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- The scientific method alone cannot establish the existence of God, but it is not entirely unable to do so.
- Fields like mathematics, philosophy, and theology offer alternative methods to establish the existence of God that do not rely on the scientific method.
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God's existence and the scientific method
The challenge that belief in God is unscientific can be interpreted in different ways, but none of them prove that God does not exist or that it is unreasonable to believe in Him. While the scientific method cannot establish the existence of God, it is not clear that it is entirely unable to do so. This is because the scientific method involves proposing explanations, making predictions, and verifying or falsifying them, which may also apply to determining the existence of God. Additionally, many entities considered well-established by science, such as electrons, cannot be directly observed. Therefore, even if scientific methods cannot scientifically prove God's existence, it does not exclude the possibility of other forms of proof.
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