CH. 9 Is The Existence of God Testable? Flashcards
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What does it mean to say that a hypothesis is falsifiable? Does this mean it is false? Is the hypothesis that organisms contain genes falsifiable?
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A hypothesis is falsifiable doesn’t mean it is false, rather, the hypothesis should be able to give at least one possible observation. The hypothesis that organisms contain genes is not falsifiable.
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What is an auxiliary assumption? How does testing the hypothesis that God exists depend on a choice of auxiliary assumptions?
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Auxiliary assumptions are the assumptions of the hypothesis to deductively imply an observational prediction O.
