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Physicist Sean Carroll
“God is not a good theory”

greywolf3 5 Sep 18
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Gods and magic aren't even a theory.... They are just ignorance faking knowledge...
Until you can provide actual evidence for your theory it can't be called a theory it remains a hypothesis...

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I don't have time to watch it right now but just the title is a lot to like. It made me think what if when theists come out saying "Evolution is just a theory" we came back with "But 'god' just a theory too, one without any evidence, and a bad theory at that". Then shouldn't we be able to quickly steer things towards an evidence based conversation. Shouldn't we?

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The rebuttal Carroll gives to William Lane Craig's "fine tuning" nonsense is the single best argument for anything I have ever heard.

I totally agree

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Most of this is over my head, so I take it down to the simplest argument. If everything must have a cause as the creationists argue, they must answer the question: "What caused God." And, it does not cut it to say this god has always existed--not only because they just violated their "everything must have a cause" rule, but also because we can reply that energy itself has always existed; and science shows us that no god/consciousness/intelligence is necessary for the universe to behave just as it does.

God is the Great Cosmic Exception to all the arguments for God. Such as everything has a cause...except God. Everything has a beginning...except God.

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