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<div>The [[falsifiable|Falsifiability]] of [[God]] is often cited by "[[scientists]]" as being evidence that God does not exist. However, scientists who make such claims misunderstand the quality of falsifiability.<br />
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*Just because something is not falsifiable does not make it incorrect. For instance, if a person says "I had pork chops and applesauce for dinner on July 12, 1987," their statement is not falsifiable because there is no test that can be done to prove the contrary. However, that does not ''by any means'' mean the statement is necessarily false. Thus, claiming that the concept of God is not a falsifiable one does not mean the concept is incorrect.<br />
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*More importantly, the existence of God is perhaps the ultimate falsifiable claim. All that one must do is prove that the world as we know it could not possibly be created be an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent being. Barring this, of course, it is impossible to discount God as the most likely source of everything.</div>CinotDNanighttps://www.conservapedia.com/index.php?title=Falsifiable&diff=296794Falsifiable2007-09-20T21:01:37Z<p>CinotDNanig: /* See also */</p>
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<div>A proposition or theory is '''falsifiable''' if it can be shown to be false when it is false. A proposal or theory that can never be shown to be false even though it is false is not falsifiable.<br />
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For example, the suggestion that I would be a very happy if I were ten years younger is not falsifiable, because I lack the ability to test the hypothesis by making myself ten years younger and seeing how I feel.<br />
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Falsifiability is commonly used as a criterion for whether a particular proposition is "scientific." Philosopher [[Karl Popper]] popularized this criterion, arguing that science progresses through the process of "Observation, speculation, falsification;" That is, we observe the universe, we develop a speculative hypothesis about the universe, and we test our hypothesis. If our hypothesis is proven false, we discard it. If our hypothesis is not proven false, we can consider it provisionally two. According to Popper, there is no such thing as ''scientific certainty;'' on the contrary, all our beliefs are properly held ''provisionally,'' and always subject to the possibility that they will somebody be disproven by experiment. <br />
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Popper, and those who agree with him, categorize many types of ideas as unfalsifiable, particularly in psychology and religion. For example, the proposition "Joe beats his children because his father beat him" is unfalsifiable, because we cannot perform a test in which Joe was ''not'' beaten by his father, and see if Joe still beats his children. Because the proposition is not testable, according to falsificationism, it is no better than any other hypothesis, and therefore not useful, and not scientific.<br />
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==Carl Sagan==<br />
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In his book, ''Demon-Haunted World'' [[Carl Sagan]], a noted [[astronomer]], gives an example of a statement with this sort of premise saying: "There is a dragon in my garage." In order for one to prove or disprove the statement they are allowed to ask questions. <br />
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*''Q. Can I see the dragon?''<br />
*A. No, the dragon is invisible.<br />
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*''Q. Can I touch the dragon?''<br />
*A. No, my dragon is incorporeal.<br />
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*''Q. Can I hear the dragon?''<br />
*A. No, my dragon is silent.<br />
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In this way, every question can be answered and therefore the existence of the dragon is unfalsifiable. However, in the absence of physical or other evidence of its existence, whether the dragon actually exists or not is a matter of faith.<br />
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== G.K. Chesterton ==<br />
[[G.K. Chesterton]], a Christian [[Christian apologetics|apologist]] of the early 20th century, articulated the problem of falsifiability several years before Popper. He wrote:<ref>G.K. Chesterton, ''Everlasting Man'', II.</ref><br />
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{{QuoteBox|Science is weak about these prehistoric things in a way that has hardly been noticed. The science whose modern marvels we all admire succeeds by incessantly adding to its data. In all practical inventions, in most natural discoveries, it can always increase evidence by experiment. But it cannot experiment in making men; or even in watching to see what the first men make. An inventor can advance step by step in the construction of an aeroplane, even if he is only experimenting with sticks and scraps of metal in his own back-yard. But he cannot watch the Missing Link evolving in his own back-yard. If he has made a mistake in his calculations, the aeroplane will correct it by crashing to the ground. But if he has made a mistake about the arboreal habitat of his ancestor, he cannot see his arboreal ancestor falling off the tree. He cannot keep a cave-man like a cat in the back-yard and watch him to see whether he does really practice cannibalism or carry off his mate on the principles of marriage by capture. He cannot keep a tribe of primitive men like a pack of hounds and notice how far they are influenced by the herd instinct. If he sees a particular bird behave in a particular way, he can get other birds and see if they behave in that way; but if he finds a skull, or the scrap of a skull, in the hollow of a hill, he cannot multiply it into a vision of the valley of dry bones. In dealing with a past that has almost entirely perished, he can only go by evidence and not by experiment. And there is hardly enough evidence to be even evidential. Thus while most science moves in a sort of curve, being constantly corrected by new evidence, this science flies off into space in a straight line uncorrected by anything. But the habit of forming conclusions, as they can really be formed in more fruitful fields, is so fixed in the scientific mind that it cannot resist talking like this. It talks about the idea suggested by one scrap of bone as if it were something like the aeroplane which is constructed at last out of whole scrapheaps of scraps of metal. The trouble with the professor of the prehistoric is that he cannot scrap his scrap. The marvellous and triumphant aeroplane is made out of a hundred mistakes. The student of origins can only make one mistake and stick to it.}}<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Falsifiability of God]]<br />
*[[Falsifiability of evolution]]<br />
*[[Deduction]]<br />
*[[Induction]]<br />
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[[category:philosophy]]<br />
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