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Author Topic:   Can science refute the "god hypothesis" beyond all reasonable doubt?
Deftil
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Message 227 of 310 (486495)
10-21-2008 12:18 PM


I feel like most, if not all, major god hypotheses in a literal sense are refuted by science. For example the christian young-earth-creationist god hypothesis is simply not viable from a scientific standpoint. Either it is wrong, or the entire foundation of science is wrong (and given the successes and general reliability of science, I feel pretty confident it's not science that is wrong). I feel like this is the case with all personal gods that I've ever heard of.
But science doesn't completely refute the idea of a god in general. A deist type god doesn't seem to be refuted by science to me. Specific claims about god have always been scientifically refuted, but that could just mean that all the specific claims are wrong, and that a god, of some sort, does exist, or at least did exist when he/she/it created the universe(s).
I consider myself an atheist when it comes to the idea of a personal god, but agnostic when it comes to the idea of some sort of "creator". I don't feel that science refutes beyond all reasonable some sort of "creator".

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