Is God's existence objectively verifiable?

[Azuren]

Eddie_Raja said:

Azuren said:

As an agnostic, I find this depressing. Not that I disagree with you- there's more scientific evidence of this than not- I'm just depressed that it will simply end there.

 

I'd like to think that there aspects of consciousness that we can't measure yet- I suppose whatever you would call a soul. Every religion has it, and it's hard to believe that isn't one. Of course, this is faith without proof. But I feel and hope there is something beyond our bodies, like maybe we just shed them and our ethereal selves can travel the cosmos, uninhibited by the laws of time and space.

Which would be totally badass. But I dunno.

Perhaps, and I hope this is true.  But I also have to bring up that I think it is pathetic that some people (Including a couple of friends of mine) say that they aren't atheists because that would be too depressing.

There is so much more to life than clinging to a belief that it never ends.  To be clear I am not an atheist, but I do not need religion to tell me life has meaning and is worth living.

I am in no way not an athiest because it would be depressing. I'm an agnostic because 3000 years ago we KNEW the Earth was flat. 2000 years ago we KNEW the sun was drawn by a chariot. 1000 years ago we KNEW that if we did not obey our lords, we would be punished in the afterlife. And now we "know" that there is nothing going on in our brains whenever we die.

 

Just because we don't detect it right now doesn't mean it isn't happening. But that sure as hell isn't reason to put all your eggs in that basket. Agnosticism.