RE: Belief and Knowledge
November 1, 2014 at 10:59 am
(This post was last modified: November 1, 2014 at 11:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Again, "not all effects have causes" is an oddly specific claim to attach to to our inability to ascertain any given cause. We've been in this position countless times (and we are in this position with other things as well) - Did rain "not have a cause" before we discovered it? Why do you imagine that you need to throw causality out the window in the face of QM in the first place? You don't. Even though we are in the dark, what we do observe can still be modeled and predicted with deterministic methods (this is a dividing line within the larger field, and while I know next to nothing about it I like to keep up with the usual apologist/wooster claptrap). This "QM or causality but not both" shit is just ridiculous. Do you really want to attach this to your god?
"God" isn't going to follow from anything that states, very simply - that there are things at some level of some interaction in any field which are beyond our ability to ascertain. You'll need much, much more to even claim that this would suggest god specifically, as a possibility - or could be supportive evidence of some god hypothesis. There's a disconnect, something has either not been done, or it has been left unsaid.
"God" isn't going to follow from anything that states, very simply - that there are things at some level of some interaction in any field which are beyond our ability to ascertain. You'll need much, much more to even claim that this would suggest god specifically, as a possibility - or could be supportive evidence of some god hypothesis. There's a disconnect, something has either not been done, or it has been left unsaid.
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