RE: Who throws the dice for you?
April 11, 2014 at 6:07 pm
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 6:21 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(April 11, 2014 at 6:05 pm)Heywood Wrote:(April 11, 2014 at 5:43 pm)Chuck Wrote: Think of it as god of the gaps diminished in stature from something roughly the size of solar system to planck scale.
It seems like science has forced god to undergo something like a cosmic inflation in reverse.
Negative Chuck,
A god of the gaps argument requires a gap in our understanding. This is not the case as we understand there are no local physical hidden variables behind the randomness at the quantum level.
There is a gap in our understanding. We do not know what, if anything of any type, is there behind quantum behavior. So you insert "god" when a variety of other conjectures, including "nothing", based on our best understanding, serves just as well and vastly more economically.
But the difference is most of those other conjectures would likely be attended by falsifiable predictions and is thus subject in principle to observation and will honorably admit defeat and leave the field when falsified. God is too dishonest a principle to ever admit defeat when falsified and the minds of the faithful will exercise their meager juices to construct an infinite number of fallback trenches behind the current front line for god to retreat to.