RE: Plantinga: Whether ID [Intelligent Design]

Hi Bill, you wrote:
 
> As another example, the statement "There is at least one electron" is
> surely scientific, but it isn't by itself verifiable or falsifiable.
>
> It isn't verifiable or testable partly because it is an incomplete
> sentence. A more complete sentence might be: "An atom contains at
least
> one electron." It may not be testable to 100% surety at our present
> state of scientific ability, but that only means we lack the
> instrumentation. We can't know the composition of black holes, but we
> know they exist.
>
"There is at least one electron" _is_ verifiable, and gets verified in
every
living room containing a TV with a picture tube and every computer with
an old
fashioned (non LCD) monitor. Picture tube type displays contain electron
guns
and phosphor screens that detect electrons by glowing. No electrons, no
picture.
 
I guess my question would be: Is it possible for an atom to exist
somewhere in the universe that contains no electrons?
 
Dick Fischer
~Dick Fischer~ Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
Received on Sun Mar 19 10:26:19 2006