Religion
In reply to the discussion: Where god fails, science succeeds [View all]humblebum
(5,881 posts)"The atom, the proton, the neutron and the electron cannot be "sensed, physically experienced, or observed'" - no one said they could, BUT their effects and the data that support their existence certainly can be observed and experienced, proving indeed that they are physically real. induction, deduction, and testing.
Distant stars sometimes cannot be seen with the naked eye, but with the use of an instrument such as a telescope they can be observed. The telescope is mere an extension of vision.The methods of Logical Empiricism or the Scientific Method still apply and its limitations are still being observed.
"By any measure, religion, metaphysics, priori, intuition, all that is suppose to relate, in some way, to the physical world." Prove it.