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To Eveline,
Scientist Finds Scientific Proof God Exists 
God Almighty is beyond proof 
But what if...
The problem is ..... (Interested )
Cannot prove a negative (Eveline How)
To Eveline and Seeker, On Pascal's Wager (Interested )
Yes, probabilistic (Eveline How)
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Dear Eveline, Thanks for your reply. Just a bit of clarification. The Scientific Method is much older than Statistics. The main feature of the Scientific Method is that you must be able to conduct some Experiment to evaluate some consequence based on your Hypothesis. What statisticians do is to contribute to the Design of the Experiment and the Analysis of the Data. Statisticians have their own methods which is called Statistical Methods. The problem is that there is no experiment you can design to prove there is a God or there is no God in the deductive sense. You are right that Mathematics is deductive while Statistics is inductive reasoning. Inductive reasoning is probabilistic. Your friend said, "How can you believe in a God which could not prove himself scientifically." I said before that God is well versed in Mathematics and Physics and Newton, based on the size and distance of Saturn and Jupiter, said that He is well versed in Geometry and Machanics. I came to the conclusion that God must know Calculus and Differential Equations, long before I read what Newton said. Looking at the universe and the sub-atomic particles we believe God is a Creative Scientist who knows everything about science and mathematics. So your friend doesn't know anything about God or else he must explain how the universe originated if there is no God. Scientist are still trying to find a unified theory of the universe but so far they haven't found it yet. You are right that just as we need faith to know there is a God the atheist also needs faith to believe there is no God. There is no way they can be sure there is no God. So theirs is also a matter of faith. If not, they are claiming knowledge of something they are actually ignorant of. But we have far more evidence that there is a God than the atheist who believe there is no God. Whatever it is as I said we have nothing to loose but they have plenty to loose if they are wrong. One experiment to do is to get hold of somebody who has already died and ask him how it is like in the next world or is there such a world in he first place. With my kind of curiosity, if I had lived during the time of Lazarus I would have done just that. Ask him where he was during the four days and what did he see and so on. I don't know what to make out of near death experiences or those people who claim to have died and returned back again. The impression I get from these people, who are non-christians, is that all you need to be welcomed into heaven is to believe in Jesus Christ. It seems that is all that is needed. I noticed that nothing seems to be mentioned about their works. Since they are not believers they return back to their bodies again. I don't know what to make out of these cases because I haven't interviewed anyone with such an experience. If I can interview them then may be I can form an opinion. So I don't have any opinion of such cases. I think the former Archbishop of the Anglican Chruch here met someone with a near death experience in the hospital when he was treating him. This sort of changed his spiritual life, after that, if I remember him correctly. What do you think of such cases or do you know of any such cases? I don't really know? Nice talking to you, Bye Bye:- |
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Reply on a small matter by Eveline How, 11/16/00
Yes Eveline, you've got it! by Interested , 11/16/00
One major flaw, To Eveline by Interested , 11/16/00
On the Pascal's paper, To Eveline by Interested , 11/17/00
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