12. Something else that is interesting scientific atheists use this argument...
"God could not be a hidden causal structure, since God is not at all physical or subject to any causal laws, which belong only to created universes.... That is basically why God is not, and could not be, part of a strictly scientific explanation. God is not publicly observable, is not subject to experiment, does not act in accordance with mathematically describable regularities, and God’s acts cannot be predicted in measurable or testable ways. "
The New Atheism International Society for Science Religion
So.....
those are the reasons that God cannot be allowed as an explanation for any unexplained phenomena....
Agreed?
Now, watch what has come from quantum theory: the Multiverse.
"…some of the world’s premier physicists to propose that our universe is only one of an enormous number of universes with wildly varying properties, and that some of the most basic features of our particular universe are indeed mere accidents—a random throw of the cosmic dice. In which case, there is no hope of ever explaining our universe’s features in terms of fundamental causes and principles….If the multiverse idea is correct, then the historic mission of physics to explain all the properties of our universe in terms of fundamental principles—to explain why the properties of our universe must necessarily be what they are—is futile, a beautiful philosophical dream that simply isn’t true." http://www.harpers.org/archive/2011/12/0083720
The reason that this 'multiverse' concept is so very important to "
some of the world’s premier [atheist] physicists" is that they cannot explain why our universe seems so finely-tuned to accommodate human life.
It tends to suggest some....'intelligence...'
Dr. Lightman writes:
"...…the great question, of course, is
why these fundamental parameters happen to lie within the range needed for life.
Does the universe care about life? Intelligent design is one answer."
Lightman, Op.Cit.
So....these 'scientists' came up with the fairy tale that we just happen to get the laws that worked out for us.....and other places have every other 'accidental' set of laws of physics.
Get that? " ...some of the world’s premier physicists to propose" that the laws of physics that apply here, don't in some other universe.
But they said God was out of the question because "... not publicly observable, is not subject to experiment, does not act in accordance with mathematically describable regularities, and ... acts cannot be predicted in measurable or testable ways. "
Bottom line: it is not science that objects to and attacks religion....there is something else going on here.
(Don't be afraid to ask what that is.)