RE: Benevolent Creator God?
August 20, 2021 at 3:53 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2021 at 3:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 20, 2021 at 3:36 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: Well, Einstein, in order to formulate SR, still relied on big chunks of classical mechanics, electromagnetism, etc. all of which are based on empirical data. But it doesn't matter, the requirement of empirical observation is only valid inside the observable world. If the entity under investigation is not observable or detectable by definition, it's meaningless to require empirical evidence.
Some people would tell you that a thing asserted to have absolutely no detectable effect, is a thing which doesn't do anything in this world.
Now, I don't think this notion of unobservability really washes out. People who believe in gods do tend to believe that those gods do something in the world. That they have some detectable effect. If we're arguing on the strength of some thing x really happening that's not going to be empirically meaningless, for example. If, however, we're arguing on the strength of literally no detectible thing happening - then the pitch is that we should believe in, let alone worship, an absentee god...on the strength of how there's absolutely no evidence for it......why?
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