Thing is, some physicists did actually entertain this idea for a while. Almost all of us have long since moved on to better ideas. (From Ross Douthat’s column on new books for God.)
Meanwhile, Cardinal Dolan yucked it up this week at a “charity” event with a multiply adjudicated charity rip-off artist, sexual predator, and general felon.
Wavefunction collapse requiring consciousness implies the universe wasn't "real" until about 300,000 years ago (or however far back you want to push animal consciousness). Not sure that's an implication that was ever taken seriously.
Oh the physics and religion knower is now posting in his politics column.
There is a truly wonderful book to be written on 'motivated reasoning and the existence of god in the history of philosophy'. Or maybe it exists, and I didn't notice?
The creator of the universe is an argument but how does that relate to the human-generated gods, who picked earth across the universe some 3000 yrs ago and made the human species be their “supreme creation” and worthy of punishment/reward. I calculate zero probability for such god or its selection.
The Trinity - three parallel universe versions of the same being? -- Deep thoughts by Ross Douhat.
At the time were those physicists thinking of that as a “must be a god” argument or is he misconstruing that as well?
Thanks for saying that! That highlighted passage is kind of a "scary" proposition...
There is a variety of theist that likes nothing more than to notice a temporary puzzlement among scientists, and quickly leap in to declare victory. It’s a good racket, as science will never run out of temporary puzzlements.
Have almost all of you moved on? I thought in surveys of physicists Copenhagen usually did pretty well, and when looking for surveys I found this paper arxiv.org/abs/1612.00676www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/01... that seem to confirm that