Gary Blaise
1 min readDec 16, 2020

"By far the biggest flaw with religion is that it is not falsifiable. And once an idea has proven itself to be non-falsifiable, it loses its credibility."

Is falsifiability a "flaw" of religion? That would be very very nice, but I’m not sure that the ideas and tenets of religion are supposed to be falsifiable. Unfortunately, we can only trust in these ideas, and we trust by means of faith and belief.

By contrast, faith and belief are unnecessary in order to KNOW that a scientific idea is correct and, yes, falsification is a great way to achieve that knowing; knowledge. Interestingly, the very word "science" comes from the Latin word "to know"—it's what separates science from unscientific ideas . . . and religion.

So can you ever know that religious ideas are correct? Are you supposed to "know"? I suspect that you can only believe, and have faith.

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Gary Blaise
Gary Blaise

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Gary Blaise makes clavichords in San Francisco.

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This is the point where things get interesting - first, yeah, you can't falsify a religious idea. I mean, clearly, most of the bible can (and has been) falsified, but most religious people just handwave that away "It's metaphor" is the most common…

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Yeah, but here’s how weird it’s gotten

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-idea-that-a-scientific-theory-can-be-falsified-is-a-myth/

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