(March 14, 2017 at 8:31 am)Stimbo Wrote: The effects of dark matter on visible matter can be observed and measured. The moment anything even remotely similar for a god is postulated is the moment the two things can be mentioned in the same discussion with any degree of rationality. Until then it's simply sleight of hand.
Regardless, no amount of gap filling with any god claim of any religion is an explanation.
One book by Victor Stenger makes this type of point. It is really as simple as knowing while you cannot see wind you can see the effects wind has on the objects around it. In Victor Stenger's book "The New Atheism", he makes this very point. Science does have something to say about god claims. If something has an effect on something else, science can be used to detect even the unseen. Scientific method has a long term ethos of adapting to data, and ethical scientists don't try to mold results to suit their personal desires, but should go where the evidence leads.
But again, you take his book along with Dawkin's "The God Delusion", you end up seeing what is really going on. There is no god, never was a need for one in reality. You end up accepting that humans make them up as result of flawed perceptions which are really nothing more than a reflection of their own human qualities.
Whatever dark matter has or any unknowns it has right now, do not get filled by inserting any god into a gap. Dark matter gets upheld or revised or scrapped through one process and one process only, scientific method and peer review.
