RE: Why do you actually believe in God?
July 3, 2016 at 6:32 am
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2016 at 6:33 am by Cyberman.)
Up until the late 19th century, there was the luminiferous æther. Just as sound waves require a medium in which to propagate, it was thought that space was filled with this elusive, invisible substance to enable the propagation of light. It would also explain the observations of the behaviour of comet tails and the orbit of Mercury and so forth. Basically, it had to exist even though it could not be proven, because how else to explain these things? The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887 disproved the existence of the æther and allowed the true explanation to be discovered.
To me, "God" on one level is the same sort of thing. An unproven pseudo-explanation for observations about the world, which although untestable in its entirety has nevertheless been chipped away by real explanations. Hopefully the trend will continue.
To me, "God" on one level is the same sort of thing. An unproven pseudo-explanation for observations about the world, which although untestable in its entirety has nevertheless been chipped away by real explanations. Hopefully the trend will continue.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
