Are all scientists atheists? No. (Introduction)

by romansh , Sunday, April 13, 2014, 04:06 (3878 days ago) @ David Turell
edited by unknown, Sunday, April 13, 2014, 04:22

Interesting book review on the fact that science can neither prove nor disprove God and also the faith of atheism and religion.
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From my persective this sort of rhetoric is par for the course.-1) I agree science can't prove the existence of god. But then it can't prove the correctness of any theory or hypothesis. We still don't have a completely coherent view of gravity. All science can do is provide data that is corroborating evidence for a position. -2) I don't agree that science can't disprove hypotheses or theories. It does this all the time. No one (well not many) seriously considers a flat earth or a luminferous aether these days. There is data that contradicts such hypotheses. Similarly if we give properties to god that are somehow testable then that type of god with that type of property can be disproved. If the god does not have any testable properties it mays as well not exist.-Bertrand captures the spirit of agnosticism here:
"As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because I do not think that there is a conclusive argument by which one can prove that there is not a God. On the other hand, if I am to convey the right impression to the ordinary man in the street I think that I ought to say that I am an Atheist, because, when I say that I cannot prove that there is not a God, I ought to add equally that I cannot prove that there are not the Homeric gods." 
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/russell8.htm