CH. 9 Is The Existence of God Testable?

Question 1

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?

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

What is an auxiliary assumption? How does testing the hypothesis that God exists depend on a choice of auxiliary assumptions?

Answer 2

Auxiliary assumptions are the assumptions of the hypothesis to deductively imply an observational prediction O.