Postmodernism: Objective truth is unattainable. Knowledge is always situated. Religion: Objective truth is found in my religion & accepted via faith, Science: Objective truth is attainable in principle & attaining it is the aim but it is always provisional & open to correction.https://twitter.com/afterall_net/status/985533728381259776 …
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Which core beliefs did you have in mind?
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They're not looking for disconfirming evidence that God exists, that he had a son etc. Might squabble over interpretation of minutiae. But i am not interested in arguing about existence of God. I did that for too long. So over it. Boring and unproductive.
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God is unfalsifiable and thus inherently unscientific. There is no percentage in arguing about God's existence. There is therefore no "correcting" to be done.
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That's how I feel, yes. Until there is evidence and some way to make him or any other mythic intangible thing falsifiable, there is no reason to consider it a serious proposition. It can't be claimed to exist. It's boring to argue about.
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Sorry for the delayed reply. I've been in Twitter's bad books. Uh, something can be a serious proposition without being scientific.
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Truth claims have a core within the tradition but also subject to transformation. If some person or group comes to believe they have been mistaken or misled, or they have a new spiritual experience, they change in response.
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People do, yes. The core beliefs don't change. They just adapt round new knowledge. Some bits become metaphorical when no longer tenable, others are reinterpreted. The chances of say, Christianity, ever changing from the belief that Jesus was a divine being and the son of God?
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Not as Christianity, no, because then it would be something else as a matter of definition. But there are sects and religious movements who have attempted to adapt Christianity in this way.
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Yes, but doubt is not encouraged and it is not the central claims. One is expected to overcome it with faith. Certainly not expected to try to falsify god claims, send findings to peer review and if can't confirm hypothesis, accept that God does not exist until evidence emerges.
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