• joostjakob@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    There will always be a space for God behind the curtain of what we don’t understand. And indeed, if you set to stone what God is, then when you lift the curtain a bit, then you have disproved God. But if you’re more flexible about it, then their will always be a space behind the curtain we do not understand. And even if we would ever understand the whole mechanism of how the universe came to be, then we can still imagine there to be a meaning behind that whole mechanism. Add to that: science is about what we can observe. But if you believe there are things you can perceive that are not vested in observable phenomena, you have something that can never be disproved by science.

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      Modern epistemology tells us that things that are not vested in observable phenomena literally may as well not exist. They are nothing.

    • FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      “God of the Gaps” is one of the dumbest arguments for there being a god

      It’s an ostrich with its head in the sand