On Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God

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  2. О научных доказательствах бытия Божия
  3. Russian
  4. Asliturk, Miriam
  5. Scientific theories and disciplines - Concepts of knowledge and modes of reasoning > Sources of knowledge (empiricism/rationalism)
  6. 12-08-2018
  7. Худиев, Сергей [Author]. О научных доказательствах бытия Божия
  8. Русская Православная Церковь. Храм Живоначальной Троицы на Воробьёвых горах
  9. Russian Orthodoxy - existence of God - Scientific method - scientific evidence
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    1. <p>Худиев, Сергей (2017). О научных доказательствах бытия Божия. <em>Русская Православная Церковь. Храм Живоначальной Троицы на Воробьёвых горах.</em> Retrieved from: <a href="http://hram-troicy.prihod.ru/nauka_i_religija_razdel/view/id/1185853">http://hram-troicy.prihod.ru/nauka_i_religija_razdel/view/id/1185853</a> </p>

    1. The article deals with the problem of the inexistence of scientific evidence of the existence of God. The author criticizes the whole idea and methodology of such an approach. He points out that science explores nature, understood as a closed cause-and-effect system governed by impersonal and immutable laws. Science does this, relying on repeated observations and reproducible experiments. The author stresses that any supernatural phenomena are thus not within the scope of science’s interests: science by definition does not deal with the supernatural. He mentions the Turin Shroud as an example of such phenomena that science cannot understand or explain: despite numerous attempts, no one yet knows exactly how the image appeared on the fabric.

      The Christian God, the author argues, is not part of nature: he is neither a natural object nor a phenomenon. One cannot subject God to repeated observations and reproducible experiments. He himself decides on what terms he wants to reveal himself to people. Only “the pure shall see Him” and this will be achieved through repentance, faith and observation of his commandments, not with the help of some technical device. To say that science has not found evidence of the existence of God, the author concludes, is just as strange as to say that an autopsy did not reveal a soul in a person.