Ricky Gervais explaining how he became an Atheist

[Rath]

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

Why would it be impossible to detect a higher plane of being?

Afterall there is also a scientific theory that there are dimensions we can not perceive.  Certaintly a technology may be developed one day to detcect those.  Why not this "higher plane".

 

Because no matter the science of the time it can still be claimed that god is above it. Basically god is by definition impossible to disprove no matter how advanced our technology or knowledge is.

Falsifiability is a hugely important idea in science and as god is not falsifiable it simply isn't science.

 

The same could be said for Dark Energy.  We have no way of currently detecting it.  Furthermore we don't even know how to begin to undersand how we could detect it.

The same could be said for Gravitons and Higgs particles or whatever they're called.

Every time they fail at detecting a Graviton they say "Oh... it's there.  We just can't see it yet.  We don't know if we ever will beacuse they hide behind other particles."

 

Not true, if for example the LHC fails to find the Higgs Boson considerable doubt will be placed upon its existence, if an even more powerful collider then fails to find the Higgs Boson even more doubt will be placed upon its existence. That can happen until the point its assumed that it doesn't exist and then theoretical physics will have to change to accept the experimental physics.