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God is not a good (scientific) theory (Sean Carroll) [video]
- rolph 5y agobrings to mind the idea of god as a stopgap. lets just call it faith, as in no physically correlated replicable observation. in other words, a hunch, or in sci parlance, an inference. no known phenomenon can be demonstrated publicly to explain it so lets fill this gap with a thing that has properties [omni-scient omni-present, omni-potent] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps
- PaulHoule 5y agoAccording to the ontological argument: ‘god’ is the reason why there is a something rather than a nothing. It’s certain that such a thing exists but you can’t determine any of the characteristics it has.