Religion
In reply to the discussion: Where god fails, science succeeds [View all]Confusious
(8,317 posts)And it really doesn't narrow anything down.
One can speculate about a whole bunch of different things without actual evidence. Life on other planets for example. It's possible, and within the realm of science, but no one has ever seen it.
"If that is the limit that you apply to any explanation then your "reasoning" is indeed limited."
Well if it's real, then it has a physical explanation. otherwise you're treating things that are not real as if they are. Faith healing, prayer, Auras.
No evidence or proof of any of those things working, or existing. You can say they do, but really, I could get the same effect from a chocolate chip cookie.
Believing in those things doesn't give you a wider range of explanations, because they don't provide explanations. "god did it" isn't an explanation, it's a statement.
PS. "discussing intangible ideas, possibilities, and probabilities." Quantum theory is full of those sorts of things. We can't hold or touch an atom, but math says it's there. So does the atom bomb.
Anything else is just a flight of fantasy. You can't prove it, use it, or help people with it beyond a placebo effect.