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Re: survival skills for teenage geeks



On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 09:33, Nuno Nunes wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 15:56, Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:
> > On Mit, 2003-01-22 at 13:23, Nuno Nunes wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2003-01-22 at 03:03, Vikki Roemer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Besides, if God sees the 'Big Picture' and mainly cares about that,
> > > > then why would s/he be just as petty and silly as your nosy neighbor
> > > > across the way?  Hmm?  Besides that, I have other reasons why I
> > > > believe in some sort of god; not for superstitious reasons-- quantum
> > > > physics. :) 
> > > 
> > > I could be taking your words to mean something you didn't want them to
> > > mean, but please don't say stuff like that... 
> > 
> > I found it was quite clear that Vikki just said that it was for *her* a
> > reason to believe in a God entity. She didn't claim it was a proof of
> > existence or what.
> > 
> > For me it's the same with the incompleteness theorem of Goedel, in a
> > way.
> > 
> > cheers
> > -- vbi
> > 
> > -- 
> > featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro
> 
> Maybe I wasn't clear, I meant that quantum physics or set theory may
> sound more sophisticated, but to me they give us no more insight about a
> hypothetical divine being than lightning or eclipses gave to our
> ancestors.
> 
> Believing or not isn't a matter of rationality, it doesn't need
> explaining.  Throwing some bits of hard-to-understand science into it
> seems very dishonest in some way... as if you were trying to make it
> sound respectable through obscurity.

Especially among people like us, who generally loathe such tactics.

Anyway, why is there such a ruckus over the use of quantum physics as
evidence of the existence of God? Perhaps it is. Be open-minded.

Alex.

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