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Originally Posted by Michael Chui  All things are ultimately reduced to beliefs. It is not possible, not even through science, to determine actual truth. Because you must necessarily begin with an axiom that cannot be proven: that's Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. Science, for example, assumes that repeatability (discovered by empirical confirmation of hypotheses) results in predictability (which is what scientific theories are). |
Fair enough. However if we accept, as virtually anyone would (including the religious), that the scientific method is valid, is there any scientific evidence for Steve's ideas? (By the way this is not Godel's Incompleteness Theorem - that states that we cannot prove any logical system to be consistant.)
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Originally Posted by Michael Chui As religious nuts have brought up over and over again, it could just be that some omnipotent God is right there changing the results of the data with His Noodly Appendage. You can't tell. |
True, but this theory is at the least not falsifiable, and so not scientifically valid.