On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Brent Meeker <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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....
You are implying specific definitions of God (I would guess Judaic-Christian). I just invented a new religion. Here's the sacred text: God is the explanation for matter existing and behaving the way it does. It is not possible to know God. Does your argument hold for my religion? Telmo. > > Brent > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
