Posted on 07/02/2020 9:37:43 AM PDT by amorphous
Leonard Susskind interview - If the deep laws of the universe had been ever so slightly different, human beings wouldn't, and couldn't, exist. All explanations of this exquisite fine-tuning, obvious and not-so-obvious, have problems or complexities.
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Which will lead to yet undiscovered universal constants equally unforgiving of variability.
“The Entity who brought the universe into existence must be a Personal Being, only a person can design with anywhere near this degree of precision
Why shouldn’t we consider string “theory” and the multiverse “theory” to be supernatural answers? They certainly don’t qualify as naturalistic science.
Well, you could be personally committed to an ideology if you are careful not to let it affect your work. Seems to be a dwindling phenomenon in the modern world though.
I AM THAT I AM
And while faith plays an important role in our belief in God, it's not like faith is all we have to go on (at least in judea-christian text). Isaiah 46:10 "I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come." In other words, if God through prophets tell us of certain events which will occur, and they occur, while we don't understand how this is possible, it doesn't discount this phenomenon or supernatural event.
Supernatural is a word we use for anything we don't understand - and there is a lot, we as humans, don't understand.
Tel me about it- I’ve been Quantangled for centuries now
Amorphous: "Supernatural is a word we use for anything we don't understand - and there is a lot, we as humans, don't understand."
Right, and the basic question here: where exactly is the dividing line between natural and supernatural?
Yes, there's an answer, but first we have to recognize that by self-definition, science cannot even accept the question as valid, much less answer it.
Science by definition can only deal with natural explanations of natural processes and so anything supernatural falls into the pervue of philosophy (ie metaphysics) & theology.
Sadly in today's world both philosophy and theology have been corrupted & diminished beyond almost all recognition.
Nevertheless we can still recognize the old term "God of the gaps" meaning "God" explains whatever science does not and so every year as many thousands of working scientists publish millions of peer-reviewed papers, the "gaps" and their "God" are inexorably reduced.
Of course, that's just nonsense, since God is not just God of what we don't yet understand,
He's also God of what we can never fully understand, beginning with all the basic "why" questions.
Does everyone not understand that ideas like "string theory" and "multiverse" are NOT theories?
They are not even valid hypotheses, they are simply flights of scientific fancy, whose only claimed virtue is they answer theological questions with allegedly "natural" explanations.
But there's nothing "natural" about mere words which correspond to zero observed facts.
So here is the answer I teased earlier: there is no dividing line between natural and supernatural, instead everything natural is infused with the Supernatural powers & design of our Creator.
Clear?
That in no way denies God, it merely expresses what came from what.
But in truth, time and sequence are illusions, as is cause.
Silly Mankind! Thinking God and the Universe are conceivable by the mind. Is the universe inside or outside your mind? The question is invalid.
It's like an eye trying to see itself.
Getting to God through the conceptual mind which divides reality into 10,000 pieces as its starting point for understanding anything is like trying to hear the sound blue makes. The question is invalid.
Doubtful. Variables are constantly springing forth creating more and more multi-verses or at least that's the Copenhagen interpretation. It's hard to nail down constants when in quantum physics when we are enveloped by quantum fields in a constant state of flux.
My cat is a big proponent of string theory. He ponders it almost every day.
We’ll see...
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