RLG210Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sensemaking, Falsifiability, Big Bang
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The social factors or bases for religious beliefs, actions, experiences, communities, etc. That is to say, for science, the divine or supernatural is not empirically verifiable or falsifiable! epistemologically, faith statements - e. g. , the claims of believers to spiritual or divine truths - are not fundamentally factual or empirical. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (heb. Religion challenges this - a split level reality (that they"re is a higher, transcendent, etc) How can science access the absolute, another world? it can"t epistemology - how we know things. People can never agree on religion, each religion believes in their own. Social science example of the dilemma - carlos castaneda: began his research on the world of yaqui magicians/sorcerers in a conventional anthro- pological way. People like don juan matus are shape-shifters, tells him that he thinks he knows things when he really does not.
