scientists [...] specialise in the way the world works; — Devans99
Hawking makes a scientific case for there not being a god — DingoJones
There's nothing wrong with saying that you don't share someone else's worldview. But to say that everyone must share your Science-Worship world view, or else they're wrong, that's presumptuous. — Michael Ossipoff
A scientist's opinion on the existence of God seems to me to carry no special weight, as science does not address the issue of whether a God exists and merely concerns itself with the knowledge claims we can make regarding the material world. — LD Saunders
In my own life, my science and my religion are separate. I'm Jewish, and so religion to me is a kind of moral code and a kind of history. I try to do my science in a moral way, and, I believe that, ideally, science should be looked upon as something that helps us understand our role in the universe.
...the phyisical world. — Michael Ossipoff
Professor Hawking is no more qualified than anyone else to express his opinion about god, and no less. — Bitter Crank
A nonsensical statement on the face of it. — Michael Ossipoff
There's nothing wrong with saying that you don't share someone else's worldview. But to say that everyone must share your Science-Worship world view, or else they're wrong, that's presumptuous. — Michael Ossipoff
A scientist's opinion on the existence of God seems to me to carry no special weight, as science does not address the issue of whether a God exists — LD Saunders
There's no such thing as a "scientific case" in physics for a position on a matter not within physics' legitimate range of applicability.
Attempt to apply science outside of is legitimate range of applicability is pseudoscience. — Michael Ossipoff
Don't you think that a theologian is more qualified to make statements about the nature of God than a physicist? — Metaphysician Undercover
Who cares what anyone, ever, writes about God? — StreetlightX
Whether something exists (or not) is the first question we ask about items for which this is not known with certainty. Anyone can think their house happens to be situated on top of a seam of gold or a pool of fine petroleum. Finding the gold seam or the pool of oil is far more complicated; specialists will be needed. — Bitter Crank
Who cares what anyone, ever, writes about God? — StreetlightX
So, wouldn't it be the specialists who are best qualified at determining whether the seam of gold exists or not? And if the specialists claim that it does exist, when they really believe that it does not, can't we say that they are for some reason acting to deceive the home owner?
The matter is not as simple as every person ought to decide for oneself whether or not to belief that God exists, it appears more like a question of whether these theologians, who are the specialists, are trying to deceive us. — Metaphysician Undercover
If you have in mind a materialist God, then science has a lot to say potentially about such a God — Devans99
. If you have in mind a non-materialist God, then by his works (the universe) shall we know him and science still has a role to play.
Yes, science deals with physical world. Do I really need to specify that? — DingoJones
I've never heard of a materialist God. — Michael Ossipoff
A nonsensical statement on the face of it. — Michael Ossipoff
No its not, as someone pointed out if god is said to exist physically then science would have a role to play. — DingoJones
I do not worship science, — DingoJones
I also said nothing about everyone having to share my world view. — DingoJones
There's no such thing as a "scientific case" in physics for a position on a matter not within physics' legitimate range of applicability.
Attempt to apply science outside of is legitimate range of applicability is pseudoscience. — Michael Ossipoff
Tell that to Galileo.
— Sir2u
Science has no fixed range of applicability. Everything anything can be investigated scientifically.
I don't find Prof. Hawking's pronouncements on the existence of god even remotely compelling. — Bitter Crank
No, it's common knowledge — Michael Ossipoff
...and there is a door-to-door-promotion denomination that has asserted that God exists physically. But, if your objections only apply to religions that assert that God exists physically, then maybe you should clarify that when expressing your objection. When you do, specify the denomination. — Michael Ossipoff
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