Anubis
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You are making a mistake. I have already pointed out that religion cannot be examined by empirical methods which are applicable only to natural phenomena. How do you examine the validity of scriptures through the scientific method?? Say the existence of heaven or hell? Empirically one cannot detect their presence. So do we reach a conclusion that heaven / hell, and by implication- God does not exist. Religion is supposed to provide suggestions towards those great metaphysical questions which are beyond science and logic.
I don't need to go to heaven or hell.....I just need to look at claims in scriptures that can be verified.....Like the creation of the universe(Hinduism,Islam and Christianity has different versions of it)....creation of the human species....claims about nature etc.If a scripture is divine it should get all these facts right....if it doesn't get it right then the scripture is not divine and the religion is not valid.Religions are not only about metaphysics because they make a lot of physical claims.These should be tested!