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RE: Does God Exist? Kind of

in #religion • 8 years ago (edited)

This post reminds me of a Neil deGrasse Tyson talk on "God of the Gaps"

Essentially, all throughout history, the greatest scientists of each time period would scientifically describe things they knew and when they reached the frontier of knowledge would invoke God. In science it is ok to say "I don't know", and in fact, to invoke God at the limit of your own knowledge is incredibly arrogant, it's basically like saying "well, if I can't figure something out, then nobody can!"

Also, with regards to how things in the universe as a whole are moving towards chaos versus things in our own galaxy becoming more ordered, this is a section of astrophysics described as "peculiar motions". Basically, because of dark energy, the universe is expanding at an increasing rate and everything is moving away from everything else. However, gravity is a force of attraction, things move towards each other. And when galaxies are within 20 million light years of each other, they move together, thus explaining our collision course with the Andromeda galaxy. So, galaxies and other nebulae don't perfectly follow Hubble's Law, but instead gravity has an affect as well. So things in our own galaxy are driven by gravity and dark energy has little effect in comparison. So while the average temperature of the universe asymptotically approaches absolute 0, things in our galaxy remain very ordered.

Also, LOVE Daniel Dennett, and agree with your assertion in general that saying anything about the unknown one way or another is akin to religion. Upvoted and followed

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    Dark energy is one of the latest additions that scientists have added to their model of the universe to explain their observations. Most such things in science start out as an unproven part of a model, inserted as a leap of faith. Sometimes they catch on and are adopted by other scientists.

    But dark energy never came to earth, took on human form, demonstrated incredible wisdom and power, suffered a horrible death, and then resurrected itself... just to get our attention.

    That's the key missing link that unbelievers overlook. Start with those observations and derive everything else from them if you want a better model of the universe.

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