On 12/3/2016 12:03 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
Physicists confuse physics and metaphysics, by not seeing that Aristotelianism is incompatible with Mechanism, and by confusing mechanism and materialism. Yes, that happens often for fundamental researcher often after retirement, except for philosophers, which confuses theology with Aristotelian theology. René Thom explained well that physicists confuse the notion of explanation and prediction. Physicists are good in prediction, but naive about explanation.
How do you know an explanation is a good one unless it provides good predictions?
Physicalism *is¨a form of creationism. They take the statement that "there is a physical universe" as an explanation of why there is a physical universe. They replace "God made it", by "it exists", but that is not better.
Sure it is. It is better not to add imaginary beings to your explanation for several reasons. First, it implies you know something for which you have no evidence. Second, brings in a lot of baggage about God: He's a powerful person. He demands we enforce certain laws. He hates the same people we dislike. He rewards worship....
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