tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116574572286428265.post8503896614164479547..comments2024-03-26T02:37:55.997-05:00Comments on Strange Matter: God of the Gaps, or How Wrong Can an Argument Be?Strangelethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00750375109270713658noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116574572286428265.post-59227920474496122762011-09-23T10:22:01.754-05:002011-09-23T10:22:01.754-05:00One belief-system (laws of science) provides testa...One belief-system (laws of science) provides testable predictions that explain a great deal of natural phenomena. One belief-system (God) provides an answer to intuitions of grandeur with no basis in fact.Strangelethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00750375109270713658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9116574572286428265.post-91030328856006533542011-09-08T09:53:17.548-05:002011-09-08T09:53:17.548-05:00Some people believe that there is a God who is ete...Some people believe that there is a God who is eternal. Some people believe that there are eternal laws of science.<br />In whichever way belief is defended, belief remains a belief.<br />One belief-system (God) has been merely replaced by another belief-system (laws of science).<br /><br />A joke:<br /><br />In olden-golden days the saying was: When there was nothing, there was God. When there will be nothing again, there will still be God.<br />But then came the scientists and changed everything. The above saying also changed to this: When there was nothing, there were quantum laws. When there will be nothing again, there will still be quantum laws.<br />These quantum laws are spaceless, timeless, changeless, all-pervading, eternal, unborn, uncreated and immaterial. Only that these laws lack consciousness. In every other respect they are just like God.<br />These quantum laws are spaceless, timeless and immaterial, because when there was no space, no time and no matter, there were still these quantum laws. (Alexander Vilenkin’s model)<br />These quantum laws are all-pervading, because these laws act equally everywhere.<br />These quantum laws are scientists' God.<br />Amen.<br /><br />N.B. Scientists will have a nervous break-down if some day they come to know that quantum laws are not eternal.uchitrakarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09317803821391979129noreply@blogger.com