Manfred comments on Religion's Claim to be Non-Disprovable - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Manfred 13 August 2011 04:42:50AM *  5 points [-]

This post was probably downvoted because you're drastically underestimating how much wiggle room religious apologists have, and so came up with the wrong sort of test, a test which wouldn't be possible. For starters, things are never proven to an infinite standard, and so the "god of the gaps" approach is viable no matter what experiment you do. Or God could create a simulation perfect enough that those inside cannot tell. And for reasons like having really small telescopes compared to the universe, looking at infinite time scales is hard. Exercise: think up your own way to defend a religious belief from a piece of evidence.