Brock: “Why do people believe in things which just can’t be true, or cannot be tested?”

I believe it boils down to the natural desire to seek or explain the human soul. What is the value of human life – is that value measurable (Marx) or infinite (Moses and Jesus)? If the individual is of infinite value (a view that I hold); and since we have no ability to physically (scientifically) test for the presence of God, one may rationally conclude that man’s infinite value is physical (observable) evidence for God; i.e.: man is made in the image of God. It follows that if man is of infinite value he/she likewise has certain unalienable rights: life, liberty and pursuit of happiness (in part our private property derived from labor).

“The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions: for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker; all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business; they are his property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another’s pleasure: and being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us, that may authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another’s uses, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for our’s.” John Locke

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111locke1.html

The belief that science is getting closer to explaining the origin of creation is false. There are only three possible cases: An eternal God created the universe; the universe is eternal and required no Creator; or the universe created its self. All three explanations are irrational if one defines reason as the ability to see and accept self-evident observable truth. None of the three possibilities stand on physical observation, and therefore all lie outside the realm of science and reason. Each belief is faith which is defined as any belief undiscoverable by science – which is to say any belief which is unobservable and un-testable.

“Where revelation comes into its own is where reason (science) cannot reach. Where we have few or no ideas for reason (science) to contradict or confirm, this is the proper matters for faith…that Part of the Angels rebelled against GOD, and thereby lost their first happy state: and that the dead shall rise, and live again: These and the like, being Beyond the Discovery of Reason (Science), are purely matters of Faith; with which Reason (Science) has nothing to do.“ John Locke

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/locke/

“The doctrine of a personal G-d interfering with natural events could never be refuted… by science, for it can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot.” Albert Einstein

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/avi/shafran_einstein.php3