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Article #12911Re: Does God need to prove He exists?
From: hhyapster
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:28
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:28
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On Jul 15, 3:00 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote: > hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote: > > > First you must realize that atoms are materials, existed in this real > > world, measurable, detectable even when we can't see them. > > Your god is an "imaginary" thing...nothing real and not measurable, > > not detectable, not even believable. > > Now that is where you are wrong. > > Atoms do not exist in the material world: they exist in a conceptual > space in principle no different to his God. > > Like his god, they are noumenous hypotheses. *Unlike* his God, they are > sufficiently precisely defined to be tested, and have not failed the > tests *so far*. > > That means that unlike biblical prophecies, the equations that govern > their behaviour - or describe them, if you prefer - CAN be used to > predict the future with an alarmingly high degree of accuracy and in > considerable detail. In specific areas anyway. > > In the final analysis, God is an *emotional* explanation, atoms are a > scientific and technical one. > > The purpose of the god explanation is to make people *feel better*. Like > any placebo, it need not be based on anything that is real in a material > or indeed scientific sense. > > >> Gordon No, Philosopher, atoms are real and bonded to form material. The conceptual existence is the electrons which does not stay in a respective space. So are the sub-atomic particles.
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