Re: The logic of atheism


Paul Holbach wrote:
robpar wrote:

Let's not posit anything that isn't proven to exist.

The physicist Wolfgang Pauli had posited the neutrinos 25 years before
their existence was experimentally proven.

That's a good point that the scientific method engenders the creation
of hypotheses before they're indisputable.

But, experiments don't prove anything, they can only show that an
hypothesis is likely to be false when an experiment fails.

The only types of statments that can be proven to be true are those of
a logical or mathematical nature.

--
Ron

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