OT: Superman and Stemcells

[Tuna]

johan osterman said:
I also notice that while you demand proofs of those that you believe holds views different than yours, you yourself offer very little to back up your assertions. This I find somewhat amusing in light of your claim that "Believers have always resorted to shifting the burden of proof to those that disagree with them".

She doesn't have to produce any proof whatsoever, as following the scientific method, she is not making a claim. Believers make a claim: "God does exist". She doesn't have to do absolutely anything until the said believers provide her with falsifable proof. Only after that she must provide the believers with a counterproof. Same works with soul: "There is no proof whatsoever for the existence of soul, thus soul does not exist. ¤"

The age old argument "You prove that god doesn't exist!" Just doesn't work. Generally, when someone uses it on me, I use that as a sign to start ignoring the person. You provide me with falsifable proof that god does exist, and I will either falsify it or start believing that god exists.

Oh, and to clear a bit: "Falsifable", in laymans terms, doesn't mean that something is wrong, quite the contrary. It means that if it is wrong, it is capable to be proven wrong. Generally, in modern science, if something is not falsifable, it is considered to be false by default.

For example the theory "All cars are blue." can be falsified simply by observing a single non-blue car. Then again, theory "there is a god" is not falsifiable, thus is, by default, false. Only when it becomes falsifiable, by someone providing me with methods to somehow test if there is a god or not, will the theory be worth even the slightest of considerations.