RE: Systematically Dismantling Atheism
November 5, 2014 at 12:31 pm
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2014 at 12:33 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(November 3, 2014 at 10:52 pm)IDScience Wrote:Heywood Wrote:You can posit any number of dimensions you want.....but say you posited 100....that wouldn't be string theory....that would be some other theory.
String theory posits 10 or 11(depending on the flavor of String theory) dimensions. An 11 dimensional universe allows for at least 10^500 different configurations(size, curvature, etc) of those 11 dimensions which means String theory allows for at least 10^500 number of ways the universe could be different(i.e. have different physics).
And you have Bosonic string theory with 26 dimensions. I'm not a physicist, but I'm reiterating what I heard a physicist on youtube say. How do you falsify 10 other dimensions?, its currently impossible. As a theist I believe in other dimensions (spirit world), but I accept them by faith, just as science accepts the 10 dimensions of string theory by faith.
Your misunderstanding of science is extremely profound. Science doesn't 'believe' in or even accept the 10 dimensions of string theory. It's an unproven hypothesis, and will remain so unless data supporting it reaches a level where rejecting it would be perverse. Some scientists may accept it, but there is far from a consensus on the matter. Even if a consensus is arrived at, the status of string theory will be accepted tentatively, barring new information that could discredit it.
(November 3, 2014 at 10:59 pm)IDScience Wrote:downbeatplumb Wrote:This is like saying your chances of winning the lottery are 50/50 either you win or you wont.
It discounts all the other possible explanations for everything and reduces them to a binary either or which they aren't
Incorrect, There is a chance that both can happen, there is not a chance that God can both exist and not exist depending on random chance.
Just as your birth mother is your real birth mother, or is not your real birth mother. Its either true or its not true, its not possible for both to be potentially true or false, unlike the lottery
Once the lottery has occurred, whether you won is no longer a matter of chance...but if you expect anyone to believe you won, you better have the winning ticket in your possession or the most reasonable position to take is that you probably didn't win.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.