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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Sriram on March 02, 2021, 02:42:30 PM

Title: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: Sriram on March 02, 2021, 02:42:30 PM: Hi everyone,

An article about 'How physics could prove God exists'.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210301-how-physics-could-prove-god-exists

Not a very meaningful article really but something to fill the time.

Cheers.

Sriram
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: jeremyp on March 02, 2021, 03:20:11 PM: Quote from: Sriram on March 02, 2021, 02:42:30 PM
Hi everyone,

An article about 'How physics could prove God exists'.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210301-how-physics-could-prove-god-exists

Not a very meaningful article really but something to fill the time.

Cheers.

Sriram

You don't read it to the end did you, because it says this:

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Science requires proof, religious belief requires faith. Scientists don't try to prove or disprove God's existence because they know there isn't an experiment that can ever detect God.

i.e. it asserts science (that includes physics) cannot prove God.
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: SweetPea on March 02, 2021, 09:09:08 PM: Hi Sriram

The question is, where did the laws of physics come from?

Science will never detect God because God is a spiritual entity....
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 09:23:05 PM: Quote from: SweetPea on March 02, 2021, 09:09:08 PM
Hi Sriram

The question is, where did the laws of physics come from?

Science will never detect God because God is a spiritual entity....
What is a 'spiritual entity'? Where did 'God' come from?
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: SweetPea on March 02, 2021, 09:43:21 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 09:23:05 PM
What is a 'spiritual entity'? Where did 'God' come from?

A spiritual entity is a non-physical entity.

Where did God come from: "I am Alpha and Omega...."
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 09:53:32 PM: Quote from: SweetPea on March 02, 2021, 09:43:21 PM
A spiritual entity is a non-physical entity.

Where did God come from: "I am Alpha and Omega...."
What is a 'non-physical entity'?

Your second answer is special pleading at best.
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: Owlswing on March 03, 2021, 12:50:03 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 09:53:32 PM

What is a 'non-physical entity'?

A ghost? An illusion? A nightmare?

Owlswing

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Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: Steve H on March 03, 2021, 08:42:22 AM: 1.3x10x23=299, which is rather less than the number they mean. It should be 1.3x10^23.
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: jeremyp on March 03, 2021, 09:36:03 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on March 02, 2021, 09:23:05 PM
What is a 'spiritual entity'?

An entity for which no evidence exists.
Title: Re: How physics could prove God exists
Post by: Sriram on March 03, 2021, 12:20:32 PM: Quote from: SweetPea on March 02, 2021, 09:09:08 PM
Hi Sriram

The question is, where did the laws of physics come from?

Science will never detect God because God is a spiritual entity....

Yeah...I agree with that SweetPea. When God by definition is beyond the laws of nature...why should he be limited by them and how can we understand him in terms of these laws?

A virtual person in a virtual world will not be able to imagine who created his virtual world and what laws he or she is subject to. The problem of God is similar. The virtual person can keep asking for evidence of a creator in terms of his virtual laws...but there will be none.