Do you believe in God?

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just used mind control to switch on the light but failed
time to go to bed then

Grischa
The lights just came on .....
in a corner of my nearly normal brain.

(Nearly Normal was the name of one of my programs. Others were Mime over Matter... But I digress as usual ...)

Do I have to believe God exists? I asked
and the echo in this empty thread answered:
God exists, exists, exists

Sure, as a voice in your head.

i believe god exists as a construct and is therefore real, but not necessarily true.

May the mystery of The Lord be revealed to you.

Read each word.
We are reading in the translation from Hebrew.

Here's a translation from the Aramaic.

"But when I came to you, my brethren, I did not proclaim to you by magnificent speech, neither by scholarship, The Gospel of the mystery of God."

The concept of god exists. Trivial point.

Turns out I was right. Even though mathematically, a theorem or physical property may give solutions that are possible within mathematical construct, they are not considered to be hard science by the AAS, unless they can be observed or tested in a lab setting. And no, there is no such thing as theoretical falsifiability. As I mentioned before, it is a term that AspE made up.

I never used the term "hard science". I was explaining the standard definition of falsifiability.

Falsifiability or refutability of a statement, hypothesis, or theory is the inherent possibility that it can be proven false. A statement is called falsifiable if it is possible to conceive of an observation or an argument which negates the statement in question. In this sense, falsify is synonymous with nullify, meaning to invalidate or "show to be false".

The wisdom of man changes.

You'll have to wait for the rest.

the whole question is trivial.
and the poll options still can't hope to cover it.
to me, god is synchronous with government.
there ya go.

I think the question is an important one. This belief influences politics on a very basic level. Government is important, and religions based on belief in God seek to change it to align with their faith.

I do not disagree with the statement you are quoting. Simply put, there is only one form of falsifiability, and that is the ability to put an experimental concept to the test. There is no such thing as "theoretical" falsifiability. It is a term you made up.

Thus the multiverse model is unfalsifiable as it cannot be tested upon or observed.

But the standard is simply the ability to conceive of an experiment, not the ability to do the experiment given the current state of technology, funding, practical considerations, etc... Falsifiable in principle is a valid concept in science.

Fuckin-g captcha, I cannot post anything.