RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
November 20, 2021 at 3:38 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2021 at 3:53 pm by R00tKiT.)
(November 19, 2021 at 6:17 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: By that I mean that individual events are random,
You probably should've mentioned that this is only one possible interpretation of quantum mechanics. John Bell showed that, in theory, there can be hidden determinism behind the curtains, that sets up how things should play out, giving room to manoeuvre for the theist. It's only when the hidden variables are local that they conflict with the predictions of QM.
(November 20, 2021 at 3:05 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I’m not confusing anything with any other. You, and no one but you, has decided that the world must be a particular way for your god to exist. That makes your mistake, about the way the world is according to physics, a necessary component of your beliefs.
Carry on.
You're doing it again. I am only saying that the world can be sufficient to make an agument for God, not that it must be in some particular way.
(November 19, 2021 at 8:02 pm)Jehanne Wrote: In other words, the Correspondence Principle:
And if, according to this principle, causality is preserved at the macroscopic level (relativistic causality), doesn't this mean that the apparent violation of causality in quantum field theory is just that, apparent...?
Correct me if I'm wrong: We know that any observation or measurement in QM is limited because of the uncertainty principle, and because of that, we can't observe the underlying causal structure that governs the behavior of subatomic particles.