On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 Craig Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > How and why did evolution or physics or statistical laws come to be? How > is that really different from the God hypothesis? >
Neither can explain why there is something rather than nothing, but the Evolution theory can explain how Evolution did what it did. However the God theory can NOT explain how God did what he did. And explaining how physics and statistical laws came to be is very very hard, but the God theory must do something even harder, explain how the thing that made physics and statistical laws came to be. > > And physics does the same by kicking everything downstairs to simple > mechanisms. > Yes, SIMPLE mechanism. Kicking things downstairs is exactly what a good theory should do, using the simple to explain the complex. The God hypothesis does the opposite and uses the complex to explain the simple and that does no good at all, far better would be a truthful "I don't know". > > Quantum physics and computationalism may be doing exactly that right > now. Our chasing ever more insubstantial chains of logical causality may be > entirely misguided. There doesn't seem to be any "may be" about it, chains of causality are not infinity long, eventually they stop and you will reach randomness. > At some point it may be necessary to realize that the universe cannot be > understood by relying exclusively on the knowable, > Maybe, but then the universe is not knowable period. If it takes something you can never know to understand the universe then obviously you will never understand the universe; and the God hypothesis is still totally useless. > but we may have no choice but to investigate choice itself. But there is nothing to investigate, there is no great mystery about choice, it's either causal or random. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
