Dear Chemistry,

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Prove to me that all of this is real.
You can't?
I don't remember signing up for science to study god.

So I really enjoy this idea for many of the reasons I'm sure others will hate it. For instance:
a) It's all completely relative. Proof, real, science, study, god - None of it really means anything, meaning it could mean anything.
b) No matter how

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"The widespread devotion to the direct observation of experience established empiricism as the dominant intellectual attitude of the age, which would become Britain's great legacy to world philosophy. Locke and his heirs George Berkeley and David Hume pursue the experiential approach in widely divergent directions. But even when they reach conclusions socking to common sense, they tend to reassert the security of our prior knowledge. Berkeley insists we know the world only through our senses and thus cannot prove that any material thing exists, but he uses that argument to demonstrate the necessity of faith, because reality amounts to no more than a perception in the mind of God. Hume's famous argument about causation--that 'causes and effects are discoverable, not by reason but by experience'--grounds our sense of the world not on rational reflection but on spontaneous, unreflective beliefs and feelings."

from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume 1: Eight EditionWhile related, they are distinct (in my opinion). I wrote

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Scott, I'm glad you actually read this thing. You save me a lot of research and quote gathering.

Let me know whatever I need to know concerning the book/cd shipping. I can help pay shipping, but it should't be more than $2 media mail.

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By believing in Christianity, you are essentially saying you will wait until the after life to see God and heaven or hell. This, therefore, makes life up the point of after life the ultimate test of God. The only way to confirm or deny this hypothesis is actually dying.

But then, this word "faith" implies a complete knowledge of an idea, not merely believing it in order to see if God is real, but beleiving it because (you think) you KNOW God is real.

Give me a while here, this term "test" throws a loophole in many of my ideas, along with "faith."