RE: Questions about God and Science
October 11, 2012 at 1:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 11, 2012 at 1:24 pm by Something completely different.)
(October 11, 2012 at 8:42 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: Scientists believe in all manner of entities that cannot be directly perceived: protons, electrons, quarks, bosons, black holes, nuclear forces, etc. They believe in these things because they help them understand natural phenomenon which they do perceive. Correct?
But God isn't one of those things that scientists can believe in because... why?
Because what you call "enteties" are part of a scientific theory .
This theory was established through close observation, experiments and calculation - if these are repeated - the results observed will be the same - out of wich - a theory is born. an out of this theory one can establish understandable explainations for that fields "phenomenons"... as someone who likes to give things mysterious names might call them.
wich is by far better, than saying, god did it... so worship a singing indian dude with a strange sence of body hygiene.
(October 11, 2012 at 8:42 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: Is it that God doesn't help them understand anything that they're perceiving? What are the respective intellectual advantages and disadvantages of believing in things like protons versus believing in god, or gods or intelligent design or a universal intelligence or something like that?
ähhh belief? I explained above that these things were established through calculation and observaton.
Scientists will reject the current model if you observe something completly different.
