#god hypothesis

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

They like to pretend that they seek answers. But before they can even get out of their recliner, they’ve already given up and declared that answer to be ‘god,” something that provides no way forward, offers no answers, cannot be explored, or for that matter, even defined.

Stop pretending you’re looking for answers. You’re looking for comfort.

[kgdrendel]

The Best Explanation for a Finite Universe (or an Infinite Universe)

What if new evidence calls into question that the universe had a beginning?

The best scientific data and analysis that we have today leads to the conclusion that the universe we live in began a finite time ago. That understanding, however, was far from evident just 100 years ago. In fact, most scientists, then, believed the universe always existed (the Steady State Theory). Evidence that suggested to the contrary, that the universe is expanding (and therefore had a…

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[johnzande]

The God-Hypothesis

Imagine, if you will, a bright young chap proposing an intriguing hypothesis for something. It doesn’t really matter what. What’s important is that it was a hypothesis that, at least on paper, sounded quite compelling.

So, an Abstract was written, and following the Abstract some justifications for the probable truth of the idea were published… and with that, efforts to prove this hypothesis began…

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[paarsurrey]

God hypothesis

“The party line among scientists — believers and nonbelievers alike — is that science and religion are what Stephen Jay Gould called “non-overlapping magisteria.” In 1998 the US National Academy of Sciences issued a statement asserting “Science can say nothing about the supernatural. Whether God exists or not is a question about which science is neutral.” Whether God exists or not is a question…

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[aardvarkist13]

Title aside this video is a very good refutation of the god hypothesis.