My father makes his argument like this:
We are essentially very clever apes. It is therefore absurd to assume we do, or can understand everything about the universe. Physicists like to claim that the laws of physics are universal but this (these are his words, not mine) is an arrogant assumption that we cannot be sure of. For example neutrinos have been clicked going faster than the speed of light, proving that our notion of the speed of light being a speed limit is absurd. It seems likely that we cannot understand the universe around us. Therefore the idea of some higher intelligence is not unfeasible.
O_O
When I try to explain the physics to him he calls me a liar or uneducated, when he's a lawyer and I'm an engineer. When I point out that going from "we don't know" to "we can't know, therefore God" is unproductive he grants me that but still sticks to his beliefs.
We are essentially very clever apes. It is therefore absurd to assume we do, or can understand everything about the universe. Physicists like to claim that the laws of physics are universal but this (these are his words, not mine) is an arrogant assumption that we cannot be sure of. For example neutrinos have been clicked going faster than the speed of light, proving that our notion of the speed of light being a speed limit is absurd. It seems likely that we cannot understand the universe around us. Therefore the idea of some higher intelligence is not unfeasible.
O_O
When I try to explain the physics to him he calls me a liar or uneducated, when he's a lawyer and I'm an engineer. When I point out that going from "we don't know" to "we can't know, therefore God" is unproductive he grants me that but still sticks to his beliefs.
