If we *do* blow ourselves up, does that disprove the existance of God?
There’s something about asking scientists (especially esteemed scientists) about God. I’m not sure where we get the idea; we think their opinions about a lot of things outside of science matter. They must think this also (not all of them obviously but some of them). Lawrence Krauss. doesn’t believe in God. Richard Dawkins likes to debate about God. Einstein wrote a letter about the Dude. I appreciate Bertrand Russel for at least giving the guy a name. It is in this paragraph always about the Jewish/Christian God.
I’m not sure how I stumbled on the Sagan youtube video. Happenstance I guess but man it is refreshing to hear a scientist call this out. His response reminds me of the Myth of Sisyshus. Science is about discovery and to some degree (as someone who used to study science) studying for ourselves.
I used to love taking lab classes. Here you find out for yourself the theories these professors are talking about. You shouldn’t wholesale believe something just because a professor said it is so. People look for some smart guy who holds their beliefs and then appeal to authority. “Of course God isn’t real-Krauss said so!”. It is good to have multiple perspectives. These guys views are valuable but at some point, I think you should sit down with yourself and think “ok but what if all these guys I look up to completely disagree with me? Shall my opinons change? Why? Were their arguments compelling?”.
I bumped into Gwern way back in 2011 in community college and I find this site is becoming more and more like theirs (but a very bad version of it-like extremely bad). There’s some posts I’ve made that might actually be useful (this, this and maybe even this). Although I’m not sure if the information in those aformentioned links are altogether correct. But this God post here is…garbage. Maybe I should give posts that seem more polished their own unique tag? But then I’d have to dig through my posts and re-tag them (that’s a lot of work).