(May 15, 2023 at 11:08 am)Angrboda Wrote: I find that when most people suggest that science supports the existence of God, a prime mover, etc, it's because they don't know what they're talking about, often from having been misled by theologists like William Lane Craig who is well-known for serially misrepresenting both science and mathematics. When you listen to motivated reasoners like Craig, you get what you deserve, which is a worldview that rests on bullshit and misinformation.
I'm not a big fan of Craig personally as I find his arguments to be a bit convoluted. I find no qualms between being a scientist and a theist. Some very well respected scientists are believers and a great deal of the founders of modern science (Newton, Kepler, Capernicus, Maxwell etc) were as well, but of course the argument there was how little they knew compared to what we know today (which I don't personally agree with). Newton's Principia Mathematica was written "in hopes that one may believe". Take Peter Higgs of Scotland and William Phillips of USA. Both won the Nobel prize for Physics, one an atheist, the other a theist. Their science doesn't separate them, but their worldview does.
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