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"Just because something is beyond our level of comprehension doesn't mean it doesn't exist"

InLogicWeTrust 6 May 6
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Science is advancing every year.

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We can make assumptions but must always go back to nothing is out there. We can prepare at the very least. I think this has a strong connotation to religion which assumes certainty of something that cannot be certained. My assumption would have an example, we are not certain that we will meet aliens so we send out our data in space so if there are aliens they may contact us. If religious people were scientists they would tell us that the alien looks like this and have this power without showing us an alien. Hope I get through clearly.

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It also doesnt mean it exist.
This is commonly used by theist as justication of a lie.
How can you believe something that you have no understanding of.
It the same as faith, unless.

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That is normally used by theists that don't understand the sentence themselves

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Sure, there are shitloads of things that we as human beings have yet to fully comprehend or comprehend at all... yet we should still be given reason to believe in what would otherwise be considered nonsense, things such as literal magic being a reality... otherwise, keeping an open mind and appreciating the wonder of mystery and appreciating the fact that we live in a vast universe is what makes being alive so amazing...

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" God exists because I don't understand things"

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if you think you know everything your a fool

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Talking about things beyond our comprehension is just a fancy way of saying we are speaking in complete ignorance.

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What is beyond your comprehension ?

Lots of things. Quantum theory, higher maths, why Trump? womens minds, the list goes on.

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Perhaps. But it’s existence must be verifiable.

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The way I look at it . It has no significance if God exists or not. If others want to believe, I could care less. It is a fringe who I know who are radical about it and think it is the only religion or belief that is true. That fringe is being used to get luny bond in power who could care less about Christians. Care about getting richer and satisfying those that get them elected. Like lowering taxes for the wealthy....privatizing health care to make insurance companies wealthy...ad nauseum

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Knowledge of nanotechnology currently doubles EVERY 2 years, clinical, every 18 months and averages every 13 months. The veil of ignorance is giving way. Soon knowledge will double every 12 hrs. Superstition I.e , belief in a sky daddy or other outdated answers to our world, other Worlds and the Cosmos is on it's way out.

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True. And much of what exists is filtered out of our view by our brain.

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We have theories for things we don’t know yet... we should know better then to put god in as the placeholder for the unknown. Before I understood why it rains I knew I would learn but never thought simply, god makes it rain. My parents would tell me thunder was god rearranging the furniture, they did not believe that and neither did I... my parents were funny for Catholics🙂

I think you me hypotheses. Theories (in the scientific capacity) are explainations of things that we DO know.

I like the way Neil Degrasse Tyson rebuked god as a placeholder: "If you want to envoke God in things we do not yet understand then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time goes on"

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True but from a practical viewpoint it doesn’t matter to me, either.

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Maybe leprechauns are above our level of comprehension. I still don't believe in them until such a time that they can be demonstrated to exist.

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Whether something exists or not is dependent on the evidence, facts and data that can be produced to support that existence. If there is simply no evidence, facts or data that something exists, then it does not exist until some evidence, facts or data is produced. IMHO

But likely many things that meet these criteria that we haven’t discovered yet. Like molecules existed before we developed the tech to prove it.

@Jenmcjen Then the evidence, facts and data was able to be produce to verify it's existence.

@jlynn37 Exactly.

Science is limited to what it can see and measure.i have had experiences outside of what science can prove, but denying them because I didn't believe in such things would be close minded.

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Inability to disprove, or conceive of, does not lend credibility to the possibility of existing.

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Or that we must reduce it to something smaller of which we can comprehend

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