On 10 March 2014 10:49, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 3/9/2014 2:40 PM, LizR wrote: > > "God did it" isn't a theory or an explanation unless it goes into more > depth about what God is, why it exists and how it does things, and uses > these details to make some testable predictions that will separate it out > from other theories (Allah did it, Zeus did it, Odin did it, Amaterasu did > it, etc). Actually GDI has a whole raft of predictions about how God will > take care of his chosen group, how he will end the world in, er, some time > soon, how he created the world in 7 days, how he will intercede if you pray > hard enough, etc. > > None of which so far appear to have been borne out, making GDI both > testable and fallible, also tested and failed. > > > The predictions have all failed, but the *explanations* are batting a > thousand. There's a whole industry called apologia turning them out as > needed. >
By constantly changing them, yes. We have always been at war with Eastasia - I mean Oceana... Another important attribute of a good theory (or "explanation") according to DD is that it should be hard - preferably impossible - to vary it without breaking it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
