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Is Christianity testable?
The question whether or not a given doctrine is testable would
apparently involve the possibility of testing that involves a pair
possibilities: either (1) confirm or (2) refute the said doctrine.
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Is Christianity testable?
Absolutely. Christianity is testable using Lennox's procedure.
And it is congruent with the Scientific Method.
Popper's False Equivalence
First, let's address a false dichotomy often taken as true by ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Yes it is, but because it is a religion it is outside the realm of proof, tests, and logic for those who believe in it.
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Is Christianity testable?
Christianity exists - the question itself is proof of that, and that Christianity has helped many people get through some hard times in their life can be anecdotally proven. However, Roman Catholic ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Yes. Christianity is testable.
I'm writing the following as a committed Christian. It is based on the core [fact | assumption] (choose one as desired) that the God of Christianity exists. Many will ...
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Is Christianity testable?
TL;DR Testable claims are testable, untestable claims are not testable, and it's easy to confuse the two when they appear to be one package.
People who study comparative religion tend to distinguish ...
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Is Christianity testable?
There are certainly formerly unhappy Christians who broke away from their religion and were happy ever after. They just don't tend to stand up in Lennox's lectures, so he isn't aware of them. I'm all ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Is John Lennox's defense of the testability of Christianity sound?
This is how the human mind works. Whatever you come to experience personally defines what you will believe. If every time you open a ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Allow me to be uncomfortably philosophical for a moment.
This question — and in fact this entire (oh so irritating) dispute — rests on a fundamental misunderstanding. Most everyone holds the naïve ...
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Is Christianity testable?
We have to start from the neutral observation that while Lennox is deliberately using scientific terminology, and explicitly placing it in a scientific context, he is NOT using the term with the same ...
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Is Christianity testable?
I cannot say I am an expert on the subject, but here are my two cents:
I come from an Orthodox Christian background (this matters a lot). Based on my experience, Christianity is 100% testable. But ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Firstly no, because he is cherry-picking evidence
In order for his claim to be valid, he would have to track the number of people went into a church and felt nothing. He would also have to track the ...
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Is Christianity testable?
It's not the job of philosophers or scientists to check whether Christianity or any other religion is testable; it is the job of Christians to provide a test which is strict according to whatever set ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Lennox claims "Christianity is true, and this is testable".
Lennox then cites a test evidence case of "a person asserts that they adopted a Christian belief, and asserts that their ...
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Is Christianity testable?
What you cite does not constitute a test in the scientific sense. The central tenet of Christianity is that Christ rose from the dead. The null hypothesis is that Christ did not rise from the dead. I ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Not really. Firstly you need to be clear what you mean by testing Christianity. It's a bit like testing a person- there are hundreds of different attributes, some of which are testable and some are ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Is John Lennox's defense of the testability of Christianity sound?
No. It's true that Christianity as a religion contains some testable claims, but the implication – that therefore Christianity is ...
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Is Christianity testable?
From the short video by John Lennox I understand that he proclaims Christianity to be an evidence based religion. He repeats two basic statements of Christianity:
Jesus is the son of God, Jesus is ...
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Is Christianity testable?
So, the view that things can be tested and evidence (SEP) can be considered is evidentialism. But just what constitutes evidence can be given a very wide berth. For instance, an astrologer claims to ...
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Is Christianity testable?
Well, he's playing with polysemy, but what he really says is that it's testable in the sense of someone adopting it may have beneficial results. Of course there's the issue what the control group is ...
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Omniscience leads to necessitarianism
Let's work in a temporal logic with five tenses Pa, Pr, F, N, and Æ: "It was true that," "It is true that," "It will be true that," "It is never true that," and,...
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Should I respect other people's religions?
No. We do not need to respect religions in the sense of accepting their propositions. It is necessary to respect freedom of religion. This allows tolerance of all religions and lack of religion. The ...
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Are there any publications that attempt to give a formal ontological definition of the Christian Trinity?
Does this do it for you, sir/madam (both?)?
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Are there any publications that attempt to give a formal ontological definition of the Christian Trinity?
An old attempt, and relatively perspicuous at that, comes from Aquinas:
For St Thomas, the relations which distinguish the divine persons constitute these persons. Relation thus becomes the basis of ...
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Why should I seek to determine the ultimate nature of reality (i.e. whether God exists or not)?
This is a false dilemma. The ultimate nature of reality may lie somewhere between the existence of God and a universe not attached to a divine entity.
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Is Abrahamic God a creature?
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he
him; male and female created he them."
-Genesis 1:27
This stirs up plenty of exegetical debate about imago dei, the ...
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Is Abrahamic God a creature?
I think that "Abrahamic God" is considered a being because of His "acting upon" this reality.
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Can science claim to explain all experience?
Science searches to explain all objective experience, but it does
not claim that it will succeed in each case.
Objective
means that there is agreement about the data which are to be
explained. The ...
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Can science claim to explain all experience?
There is no particular reason to assume that science will ever explain human experience. It's possible to hope so, and I do, but there is no precedent that I know of.
Note that science itself is a ...
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Can science claim to explain all experience?
Scientific knowledge is bascally a consensus about how an experience can be explained; whether the experience is electromagnetic waves, the moon's rotation, why I got infected, or why I am depressed. ...
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Can science claim to explain all experience?
"Science can explain all experience" is neither a statement of fact, nor a scientific claim. It's a statement of belief. The system of beliefs it belongs to is often called "scientism&...
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Can science claim to explain all experience?
Science is defined by the scientific method (1). For science to explain a concept the concept must be:
Formulated as a hypothesis which can be proven.
Evaluated / tested in a measurable, objective ...
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