This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.
The claim that science can disprove God__ existence is an honest ambition but it is a statement that is actually impossible to back up. This is because the task of proving something like science is unprovable by scientific methods. How do you prove an idea like __cience_? What container do you use to measure it? What laws of science do you use to prove science? That__ the first reason why the worldview of scientism, the belief that science proves everything, fails to work out in real life. Science cannot prove everything because it cannot even prove itself.
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The claim that science can disprove God__ existence is an honest ambition but it is a statement that is actually impossible to back up. This is because the task of proving something like science is unprovable by scientific methods. How do you prove an idea like __cience_? What container do you use to measure it? What laws of science do you use to prove science? That__ the first reason why the worldview of scientism, the belief that science proves everything, fails to work out in real life. Science cannot prove everything because it cannot even prove itself.
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