RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
September 13, 2021 at 3:49 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2021 at 3:50 pm by Jehanne.)
(September 13, 2021 at 3:17 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: All kinds of models exist. Until they have experimental confirmation, they are nothing more than thought experiments, and so they can't be used in an actual argument.
Cosmological models are at least mathematically coherent, but, as you imply, such does not make them true. J.J. Thomson's model of the atom is one example; the ultraviolet catastrophe is another. What these models imply, however, is that an appeal to a creator god is unnecessary.