JohnW
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| Quote (JohnW @ July 06 2007,11:16) | | I'm about a third of the way through Victor Stenger's "God: The Failed Hypothesis". I'll reserve judgment until I've finished it, except to say that it's a fantastic bus book. For those who haven't seen it, the cover has "GOD" in huge letters, with smaller letters below reading "The Failed Hypothesis", then in tiny ones "How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist". I've had several people sidle up to me with grins on their faces, get closer, then turn pale and back away slowly. |
Finished it. He makes some good points, and although I think he makes an unjustified leap from "no evidence of existence" to "therefore non-existence", I agree with his overall conclusion that the universe looks exactly the way we would expect it to look if there was no god. It was nice to see such a concentration on the scientific evidence, rather than "religion is evil".
Now reading Owen Gingerich's The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus.
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Math is just a language of reality. Its a waste of time to know it. - Robert Byers
There isn't any probability that the letter d is in the word "mathematics"... Â The correct answer would be "not even 0" - JoeG
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