BAE,
When God becomes observable will God be a theory?
If I could interject. A hypothesis & theory are really the same thing, it is conventionally thought that a hypothesis is a more tentative proposition than a theory, however.
A
scientific theory or hypothesis must be based in observation & have falsifications. This is why God fails the scientific litmus test.
Consider the notion of God 500 years ago, it was an anathema to suggest that God would let his creations perish. In naturalist terms, he would not let the species he created become extinct. At the time this was an alleged potential falsification. When it became clear that many types of creature had indeed become extinct it was attributed to the flood, etc etc. And this is the real bane of religious thought. There is no true falsification, you will always be able to attribute the newer understanding to God, which makes the whole idea have an explanatory power of zero. Anyone could stuff a religious fundie out of sight in an argument, s/he would simply sidestep & attribute my POV to God.
Mark
"Physical Reality of Matchette’s EVOLUTIONARY zero-atom-unit in a transcendental c/e illusion" - Brad McFall
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