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If God was Schrodinger's Cat

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If God was Schrodinger's Cat
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RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat
March 22, 2015 at 1:02 am
The thing is regardless of whether Schrodinger's cat is alive or dead, the universe is pretty much the same. The only point being that without opening the box, there is no certainty about the cat's death or survival because unlike Newtonian physics quantum mechanics deals in probability. If whether god existed or not, or is alive or not matters about as much as the cat, then god is as irrelevant as the existence of a single cat. In which case god is of no interest, the only thing of interest would be that we couldn't know for certain if god existed. Also, there is no box to open to determine the existence of god. Finally, Schrodinger at least knew the probability of the cat being alive or dead, but we have no way of calculating the probability of god. So, I'm confused.
What does Schrodinger's thought experiment (mercifully no real cat was ever involved) have to do with god?
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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If God was Schrodinger's Cat

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If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 8:48 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Lemonvariable72 - March 21, 2015 at 8:52 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 8:57 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Lemonvariable72 - March 21, 2015 at 9:01 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 9:32 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Lemonvariable72 - March 21, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 11:21 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Cato - March 22, 2015 at 5:43 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Drich - March 21, 2015 at 9:50 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 10:01 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Minimalist - March 21, 2015 at 10:07 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Drich - March 22, 2015 at 12:34 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 22, 2015 at 1:24 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Cyberman - March 23, 2015 at 3:12 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Spooky - March 21, 2015 at 10:02 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Pizza - March 21, 2015 at 10:03 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by LostLocke - March 21, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 10:25 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Lemonvariable72 - March 21, 2015 at 10:30 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Homeless Nutter - March 21, 2015 at 10:06 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 10:23 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Homeless Nutter - March 21, 2015 at 10:56 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 22, 2015 at 11:52 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by The Reality Salesman - March 21, 2015 at 10:46 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Ravenshire - March 21, 2015 at 10:51 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 21, 2015 at 11:01 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by IATIA - March 21, 2015 at 10:57 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by The Reality Salesman - March 21, 2015 at 11:00 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Sterben - March 21, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 22, 2015 at 12:45 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by The Reality Salesman - March 21, 2015 at 11:10 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Jenny A - March 22, 2015 at 1:02 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by JuliaL - March 22, 2015 at 1:02 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Alex K - March 22, 2015 at 4:25 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Mudhammam - March 22, 2015 at 5:30 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by IATIA - March 22, 2015 at 10:33 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by daver49 - March 22, 2015 at 2:59 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by LastPoet - March 22, 2015 at 5:12 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Norman Humann - March 22, 2015 at 5:33 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by LastPoet - March 22, 2015 at 5:34 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Sterben - March 22, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Aoi Magi - March 23, 2015 at 12:02 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by psychoslice - March 23, 2015 at 12:35 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by IATIA - March 23, 2015 at 12:59 am
RE: If God was Schrodinger's Cat - by Cyberman - March 23, 2015 at 3:13 am

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