a proposition is found to be false, it’s not false? How does that work out? What if something is never verified to be true or false? What is it then? “Life after Death,” for example, has never been proven to be true and it’s never been proven false. If one day someone was to find out that life after death is proven to be false, what is the notion than of “life after death”? Has it been falsified or is it still possible to be verified? Can something be falsified and than proven true and become verifiably true?(5) Verification can only be sought out using interpretation. Interpretation is the main ingredient of verifying a proposition and since interpretation is different for all, nothing in religion can be verified. Person A thinks that there is life after death while Person B disagrees, thinking that there is nothing succeeding death. Person C however doesn’t know what to believe and decides to just go with his life and see what will happen. All die on the same day and all figure out the truth. Let’s say that Person A was in fact right and there is life after death. Person A has verified that in fact life after death does exist. Person B has also observed the fact that there is life after death also. Person C however sees the life after death experience just as death. Person C feels that life is not taking place after death rather that he is living out his death experience. He is not in fact living after death but “living death”. So now Persons A and B both feel that “life after death” has been verified. Person C has verified something completely different. Which person/persons is correct? Both and neither are correct because in religious terms, everything seems to be true and false at the same time. Just as nothing is true and nothing is false. Hick explains this: “In other words, neither of the rival positions is, even in principle, ...
