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To: numberonepal
Yep.

Exclusive use of Occam's razor to avoid Type 1 category errors leads to unwarranted Type 2 category errors which falsely have the supposed imprimatur of science.

"No Gods" is a bastardization of "God doesn't interfere" (ceteris parabus) used as a metaphysical *assumption* which (strictly speaking) makes empiricism possible.

The practical, engineering successes coming out of empiricism mistakenly lead people (particularly moderns) to assume the "No Gods" is a *prediction* of science, which (they think) has been proven true by the wide success of the scientific method.

The problem is that God (as it were, by definition) is both sentient AND sovereign (to say nothing of non-physical); so that the failures of "scientific" means to verify God, which are predicted in advance by the theologian ("the Queen of the Sciences'), are seen as nothing more than desperate, ad hoc, ex post facto excuses by the skeptic: but it is a misunderstanding of the limitations of science.

2,003 posted on 01/10/2023 8:43:37 PM PST by grey_whiskers ( (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.))
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2,004 posted on 01/10/2023 8:47:32 PM PST by MomwithHope (Forever grateful to all our patriots, past, present and future.)
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