Faith vs. Sight

Faith and sight are opposites, like light and darkness, good and evil. When you have one you don't need the other, and vice versa. We also use them as concepts in a unified theory of everything.

Empirical Parrots

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Scientifically illiterate science worshipers (SISWs) frequently tout the importance of empirical evidence. They squawk the phrase "empirical evidence" like parrots squawking "pieces of eight, pieces of eight".Scientifically illiterate science worshipers (SISWs) frequently tout the importance of empirical evidence. They use the phrase like parrots squawking "pieces of eight, pieces of eight."

Falsifiability

Technically speaking, in order to be scientific, a hypothesis must be predictive, testable and falsifiable. The truth isn't falsifiable. If it was, it couldn't be the truth.

The Soul Conclusion

If science can't detect it then it doesn't exist. That's rhetoric which crops up on social media quite frequently. The soul is undetectable by popular science (SciPop) which is why scientists dismiss the possibility that it exists.

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The gravitational wave detector at LIGO has been online for a while but the first ever recorded detection of a gravitational wave was in September 2015. According to AST logic, they didn't exist before that.