Jack Preston King
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

experimental data is experimental data, whether you use it as a physicist or as a child.

Hey, this line deserves a response all its own. A lot (not all) scientists are atheists. MANY philosopohy teachers (this I have direct experience of) accept the world-story science tells and devote whole classes to trashing all the various “philosophical proofs of God,” and just generally making the point, as do all scientific-materialist-atheists I have met online, that belief in God is just stupid and untenable, because science says so.

BUT — and this I ask you personally, because it’s a response to your statement, if, as you suggest, “experimental data is experimental data, whether you use it as a physicist or as a child,” then what if (and this is common) A) a child (as many do) learns to pray as a child and through prayer experiences the reality of God. He has collected experimental data (prayers/answered prayers), and so has sufficiently demonstrated that God is real. Then B) the same child at 18 attends his first college philosophy class, where he is told there is no God, and given a dozen philosophical proofs to show that, logically, God can’t be real. He is told to doubt the results of his experimental data because the science world-story and the philosophy/logic world-story say God doesn’t exist. What should the kid do? Believe the results of his own experiments and experience? Or accept the testimony of science and philosophy?

The point is that, in this scenario, by your definition of science, the child has a scientific understanding of and relationship to God’s existence. While the philosophy teacher is denying the existence of God from a religious understanding of and relationship to science.

None of this is as cut and dried as most people on the science/atheism side of this argument want to make it out to be.

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