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Do we need science to prove or disprove God?
Why not philosophy? why not sociology or psychology?
16 Answers
- The_Doc_ManLv 710 years ago
Science, because it deals only with the measurable factors of the world, cannot prove or disprove God's existence. God is not a being of any physical nature that we know. (See, for example, "My kingdom is not of this world." - Jesus to Pilate.) Science can only measure this world.
Therefore, science cannot prove or disprove God. Philosophy includes some types of logic. It is quite possible that some philosophical issues could be used to logically disprove God.
Me, I'm a pragmatist. I've seen no evidence for God's existence that wasn't compromised by the ills of irrelevance, ambiguity, or inconclusiveness. Lacking evidence, I choose to disbelieve claims of God's existence on the grounds that if the claim COULD be proved, it would have been proved by now. No proof? No God.
- Anonymous10 years ago
All three of the alternatives you have given are relative, therefore, what one man discovers, another may not accept. My ideas on Philosophy and Psychology may be much different from your's, yet we could still receive the same results in practice. Science, in the terms you are using it(physical sciences) is not entirely relative. We may have different ideas, but the results will not reflect both of our theories. If we use relative studies, people will not accept it as fact.
FYI, philosophy, sociology, and psychology are all three branches of science, but they just involve the human mind rather than the universe.
- ?Lv 710 years ago
All of these disciplines can be used. Natural science can investigate the testable claims made by religions. Philosophy can be used simply by demanding evidence for a particular god. Anthropology (sociology) can be used to study the origin of religions, and psychology can be used to determine why people feel they need to believe.
In all cases the result will be the same: no evidence for a real god and plenty of evidence that people made it all up.
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- Anonymous10 years ago
Although I myself am agnostic, Stephen Hawking has stated (on more than one occasion) taht according to science God must exist. Science has explained quite a bit of the existing, known universe - but some things defy the laws of physics yet still - there they are. If the greatest mind in quantum phuysics can make such a statement then why couldn't science and religion and phylosophy and sociology all work in tandum?
For the record, sociology is a form of science (hence the OLOGY at the end meaning the study of - which is science).
- ?Lv 710 years ago
Philosophy and sociology are merely people's opinions so ultimately worthless to find the truth. Psychology may explain why people become deluded but it will not prove or disprove any gods.
- ANDRE LLv 710 years ago
Because science deals in evidence, and produced working results.
Can science disprove any deity ? No. Can science disprove the bible god ? Yes, and it has, because it has disproven many claims made for the actions of the bible god. Things such as the bible, repeatedly, claiming that the Earth is flat, and that the world was covered in a flood during the existence of humans.
- BobLv 410 years ago
Philosophy doesn't prove anything, It just thinks over it. Psychology can't do anything. Science is the only way.
- 10 years ago
Science will never prove or disprove God. God cannot be measured.