James,
What experiments are you talking about? Proving or disproving that God is an impossibility?
If that is what you meant, how could there ever be an experiment for that?
I cannot speak for Prism.
I have my own mind, James. I do not take any one’s word for anything though there was a time when I would have before having come to ILP. ILP has ruined me insofar as God is concerned and that is not a bad thing. lol
Actually, if I am not mistaken, it was not hundreds of people. It was a few fisherman, disciples on the boat and a few on shore.
I do not so much believe in the power of prayer. I think it is more like the power of suggestion. If we pray, it gives us the motivation to go after what we want since the prayer makes us believe that it will happen, if that made sense.
Being an agnostic and a skeptic, I am like a doubting Thomas. If I do not see it for myself I cannot believe it. I am like Jung. “You either know a thing or believe a thing. If you know a thing, you do not need to believe it.” I may have said that incorrectly.
I do not see an omnipotent God - ergo there can be no walking on water for me.
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I actually think that those two questions are wonderful ones. I had planned to give them both more thought.
I may be wrong here and this is by no means an excuse but since I do not know a whole lot about science, any category of science, could I answer that question? My intuition tells me that that would be more of a scientific problem or issue.
I cannot quite grasp your meaning though in your second question…
yet is known to not exist?
That might be even a more difficult question to answer. Wouldn’t that go back to “what is ‘reality’”?
At first glance, I might say that since we cannot have knowledge of everything now, how can we know that something does not exist? We just have not discovered it insofar as the sciences go. So, for me, I can intuit that something might affect us though we have no idea what it might be…as of YET.
Insofar as things known not to exist, I might say fairies, goblins, witches, aliens from outer space, monsters which visit us in our nightmares, things of that sort, we pretty much figure that these things have no basis in reality but at the same time, since they exist in the minds of humans, do they have reality though not physical reality? They certainly do affect people.