(November 3, 2021 at 12:02 pm)Jehanne Wrote:This is correct. None of these things will be proven for as long as humanity exists. Which is why the question is: Does anybody here have any problems with people using science to take a leap of faith and answer existential “why-s”?(November 3, 2021 at 11:55 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Well, there we go. Straight from a failed to launch god of the gaps into a doomed tu qoque.
I think that scientists and philosophers both would disagree with your appraisal in this regard.
That there is a God who created the finely tuned Universe is, and always will be, a possibility; problem is that such a proposition is an inherently untestable hypothesis, and as other naturalistic explanations (multiverse) exist, via Occam's Razor (the scientific principle of parsimony), the naturalistic models (which are testable) are to be preferred.
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