In ‘The Three Body Problem’, we see a prominent scholar and professor being publicly beaten by the communist party for not denying God’s existence. He goes on to say that ‘Science hasn’t provided any definitive answer’. So I’m curious, <title>.

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    2 months ago

    A definitive answer is impossible unless God makes itself known. There is no evidence for god and thus no scientific answer. God is a belief, belief is not scientific.

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          2 months ago

          multiple letters to and from roman officials about the resurrection 500+ witnesses empty tomb alive cardiac tissue growing on catholic hosts

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            2 months ago

            People can be tricked is a simpler explanation. Magicians have entire shows where they trick the perceptions of hundreds to thousands every night. Letters and witnesses could just as easily be justified as aliens rather than god.

            No idea what you mean about “alive cardiac tissue on catholic hosts”.

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              back then, they didnt have 4k resolution footage, so letters and archeological and literary sources are the some of the best proof we can get.

              also, back then, ink, a writing station, a quill were expensive and it was extremely hard to forge writing

              and alive human cardiac tissue was found growing on hosts in a catholic church

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                2 months ago

                They’re proof that people believed a thing happened. Its not proof the thing happened. Im not saying the letters are forgery, simply they don’t suffice as proof. Why haven’t they showed up in 4k to make the non-believers shut up and save them from hell?

                Ddg tells me that catholic hosts refers to communion wafers. Are you saying that there’s cardiac tissue in communion? What source do you have for that claim? Can I genome sequence or clone Jesus then?

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                  2 months ago

                  they were eyewitness accounts

                  who gives eyewitness if they BELIEVE it has happened?

                  eyewitness can only be given if you have seen it happen with your very own eyes

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              2 months ago

              I try to write in columns but lemmy doesnt include all the spaces

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    2 months ago

    There is one interesting connection that I have found.

    In 1999, researchers in New York fired very powerful lasers at each other. When they intersected, they caused an electron and a positron to spring out of the vacuum.

    If light can cause the creation of matter, then there’s the possibility, however slim, that a hermit sitting on a hill blazed out of his gourd on some divine bush could have been given some sort of insight that perhaps he was linguistically incapable of accurately communicating.

    I’m not saying that this definitively proves anything. I just find it interesting that a hermit on a hill 7,000 years ago could have somehow deduced in any way that light was one of the fundamental particles of the universe, or that matter could be made from light.

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      I think you’re giving Genesis more credit than it deserves. It doesn’t say God used light to create anything. In most translations, it just says God created the Heavens and the Earth without specifying how. It says at first the Earth was dark and formless, until God commanded light to exist, creating day and night and evening and morning.

      I’d be much more impressed if Genesis told us that the entire universe was compacted into a hot dense state ~14 billion years ago, and that during its earliest moments it passed through a decoupling of the four fundamental forces, then went through a brief moment of incredibly rapid expansion, etc. etc. … but it doesn’t. Instead it incorrectly states that the Earth predates the stars, that day and night predate the Sun, that life on land predates life in the seas, and more. If a divine entity was capable of relating the origin of the universe and life on Earth to an ancient author, there’s no reason it couldn’t do so in a way that’s unambiguous to modern scientifically-literate readers.

      I think it’s far more likely there’s no connection at all, and people only see one there because they specifically went and tried their hardest to find one, no matter how tenuous.

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        Okay, but the question I am being asked is what are the most convincing arguments for their being a god?

        And my response is, is that science has redone a thing that God was claimed to have done, and it created matter.

        If you are not a biblical literalist, if you can accept the idea that the Bible is correct, but not flawless in its data communication, then it has at least the tiniest little spider’s web strand of reason that says that the hermit Moses, seven-odd-thousand years ago, received some sort of divine revelation that contained information that was later proven to be scientifically true, which lends at the very least a mote of dust worth of credence to the existence of God.

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          2 months ago

          I’m an atheist, but my argument for a god of some sort is that we probably don’t exist out of nothingness

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            2 months ago

            Yes but that generally just shifts the questions one layer lower. Where would God come from then? I know the typical answer is God has always existed but if God doesn’t need a reason to exist then really the universe doesn’t either.

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              2 months ago

              God is omnipotent, so he exists on a completely different level than the universe apples to oranges

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      2 months ago

      “stop trying to figure it out”

      you want us to stop science?

      and I want proof for your claim and an answer, not an opinion

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          2 months ago

          Again, an opinion, and an utterly wrong one at that.

          there is plenty of proof for God,

          try to be more open minded

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              2 months ago

              there is a lot of proof, you have a choice to either listen and then have a conversation or to plug your ears and go lalalalalallalaala

              I think the latter isnt very scientific

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              2 months ago

              Not opinion.

              Fact.

              Wake up.

              plenty of proof for the sun being the center of the solar system

              No, definitely not.