Comment on Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney

PunkMonk@lemmygrad.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

9.) Ask whether the hypothesis, at least in principle, can be falsified. Non-falsifiable and untestable hypotheses cannot be checked out, and hence those ideas are incapable of disproof.

Number 9 encapsulates religious debate well. I have come across these unprovable ‘facts’ a few times when explaining what God is or what the self really is or what our purpose is e.t.c.

I could be considered religious depending on your definition, I have no issue with other people having a personal religious belief, just please be honest with that it is a belief and using the above quoted argument to prove it as true is not reasonable nor concrete evidence.

If you have experience something which proved that religion as real to you, then good for you, I think I might have had something like that, just be fair to others about that they have no idea what you happened to experience and be fair to yourself that the brain is not a perfect witness.

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