(July 14, 2017 at 8:37 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(July 14, 2017 at 7:41 pm)Astonished Wrote: And then you ask them to prove why it's necessary, that's always fun. Or by what mechanism god's own existence gets to be exempted from the infinite regress. They can't give a description. It's all fucking woo-woo magic which explains NOTHING.
And, that's the point; why bother with God when the the Schrodinger equation clearly implies that the Universe is eternal, both beginningless and endless? The Schrodinger equation, unlike God, can be written down, tested, observed, found to agree with observation and experiment, and leads to the prediction of new observations and experiments. "God" is ill-defined, untestable and leads to no predictions of any kind. The whole concept is woo-woo:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woo-woo
Right. The deist god of nebulous thought but which is credited with setting the big bang and whatnot in motion is already shanked in the gut by Occam's Razor, but to add any theistic claims about any other attributes is where the problems lie. I could deal with someone thinking there was something behind everything as long as there was absolutely no follow-up contemplation about it whatsoever and they went on about their lives like they do with everything else. But that's not how anyone treats religion or spirituality.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
