One of the names of God is the God of gaps. Therefore, having eliminated the main gaps (for example, describing the Big Bang completely), the Scientists falsify Theology and All Religions. But this means that (according to the Popper Falsifiability Criterion) Theology and Religion is Science.
What are your thoughts?
Is Science the project to discredit Religion?
exchemist: ""God of the Gaps" was a phrase invented by Prof. Charles Coulson, whose lectures on maths for chemists I attended in my first year at university. As well as Prof of Theoretical Chemistry, he was also a Methodist lay preacher and author."
Falsifiability is about the potential of any statement be refuted...or that can be “potentially” tested.
Being “tested” mean being able to observe/detect, being able to quantify or count it (for example, for statistical purposes and probabilities), to being able to measure the evidence, compare evidence against each other, and so on.
For religions to be falsifiable, then the god or gods must be observable/detectable, countable, measurable, refutable (testable), etc.
A god that is invisible, isn’t observable, so you wouldn’t be able measure god too. This would make religion, not falsifiable, therefore not scientific.
A god where you cannot measure god in any way, eg measure mass, dimensions, energy, forces, etc, make religion not falsifiable, hence not scientific.
God or gods are not falsifiable, therefore the religions are not falsifiable.
If god was responsible for the Big Bang, as an “agent” that created the universe, then verifiable evidence are needed for that “agent”.
Some things in life, in nature, are not immediately observable, so you have device that can detect and measure it. For instance, we cannot see electricity normally, but we can use device like multimeters to detect electricity and to measure electric current, voltage, power, energy, etc. You can also find the source of electricity, eg battery, generator, the appliance’s power cord being plugged into power wall socket, etc.
Even though you might not “see” electricity, you can feel it, and you can detect it and measure it, and you would know there are sources for electricity.
You cannot do that with gods, which make gods not falsifiable, which people believing in gods and follow such and such religions, not falsifiable, because there are no ways possible to observe, measure and test the gods.
In physical or natural sciences, the explanatory models (eg hypothesis or theory) tried to explain WHAT the phenomena is and HOW does it work. There is no WHO.
The only times science required investigation of the WHO, is in social sciences, like in psychology, anthropology, archaeology, political science, laws, etc.
Social sciences are different from natural sciences (physical sciences and life sciences). Falsifiability, Scientific Method and Peer Review are not very important in social sciences, not in the same ways with physics, chemistry, Earth science, astronomy, and biology.
In your OP, regarding to the Big Bang cosmology, there is no agent, so no WHO. Theology isn’t science, because the subject matters aren’t falsifiable.
Subjects like, gods, angels, demons, spirits, souls, resurrection, reincarnation, heavens and hells, divine miracles, etc, are all not falsifiable.
