Is Atheism science?

[Evangelicalhumanist]

Is Atheism science?

If not, is Atheism just a conjecture, please?
Regards

No, it is a perfectly rational response made by someone who has looked at all the available evidence for a God (the kind suggested by most religions) and concluded, because such evidence does not exist, therefor the God does not exist.

This would be precisely the same thing as looking for the evidence that a 7,000 foot-tall, 23 legged megalo-insect existed on planet Earth, and finding zero evidence for such a thing, concluding it doesn't exist and then just getting on with your life without worrying about it any more.

 

[SkepticThinker]

No. Atheism is atheism. Science is science.

 

[paarsurrey]

No. Atheism is atheism. Science is science.

In other worlds Atheism has nothing to do with science. Right, please?

Regards

 

[Subduction Zone]

In other worlds Atheism has nothing to do with science. Right, please?

Regards

No one, except for perhaps you, has ever claimed that there was a tie.

 

[SkepticThinker]

In other worlds Atheism has nothing to do with science. Right, please?

Regards

Yes, they are different things.
Atheism is a response to god(s) claims.
Science is a tool we use to systematically investigate the nature and behavior of the natural world.

 

[Valjean]

In other worlds Atheism has nothing to do with science. Right, please?

Regards

Exactly!

 

[MonkeyFire]

No more than faith is.

 

[ChurchofPhysics]

So your claim was just hand waving. Not a hypothesis.

We are going in circles. Again:
The "God Hypothesis" is that intelligence created the universe and created life within it, and these cannot be otherwise created. This hypothesis could be a scientific fact and factually true, and is falsifiable. Two possible tests that would falsify "The God Hypothesis" would be if scientists could a universe or create life.

 

[Valjean]

No more than faith is.

????? Explain?

We are going in circles. Again:
The "God Hypothesis" is that intelligence created the universe and created life within it, and these cannot be otherwise created. This hypothesis could be a scientific fact and factually true, and is falsifiable.

Is it really a hypothesis or just speculation? Is it based on any evidence or observation? Does it explain anything otherwise inexplicable?

Two possible tests that would falsify "The God Hypothesis" would be if scientists could a universe or create life.

Why would these falsify it? Does our ability to replicate some work of God disprove God? There are lots of things we can't currently replicate, but understand. A century ago there were even more.

Science studies mechanism, not purpose, or value or agency. These are the purview of religion. Religion, as a research modality or in explaining the mechanics or methods of effect, only embarrasses itself.[/QUOTE]

 

[ChurchofPhysics]

????? Explain?
Is it really a hypothesis or just speculation? Is it based on any evidence or observation? Does it explain anything otherwise inexplicable?

Believers say It explains why there is something rather than nothing -- something science has not been able to explain.

 

[Subduction Zone]

We are going in circles. Again:
The "God Hypothesis" is that intelligence created the universe and created life within it, and these cannot be otherwise created. This hypothesis could be a scientific fact and factually true, and is falsifiable. Two possible tests that would falsify "The God Hypothesis" would be if scientists could a universe or create life.

That is only because you are repeating yourself.
it is not a hypothesis because by your own admission there is no reasonable way to test it.

and creating life would not refute your concept, even if they did.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Believers say It explains why there is something rather than nothing -- something science has not been able to explain.

What makes you think that?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Believers say It explains why there is something rather than nothing -- something science has not been able to explain.

What makes you think that?

 

[ChurchofPhysics]

What makes you think that?

Ok, how according to you does science explain why there is something rather than nothing?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Ok, how according to you does science explain why there is something rather than nothing?

It appears that "nothing" is impossible in our universe.

Do you have an hour for a very informative video?

 

[Looncall]

Ok, how according to you does science explain why there is something rather than nothing?

There is another honest answer , "no one knows yet", that is superior to turning to ancient superstitions and con games.

It may be that insufficient evidence remains to permit an accurate answer. Made up stiff is invalid in that case too.

 

[Ben Dhyan]

^^ I know....and I am happy to accept you do not know. If you can provide any proof that anything can be removed from the universe, or that something can be added to the universe I would reconsider but since I know that such evidence does not exist, nor will it ever.

 

[Valjean]

Believers say It explains why there is something rather than nothing -- something science has not been able to explain.

But Goddidit isn't an "explanation."
Why is there God rather than no God?