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AMA | November 2021

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

Is God a Good Theory?

i'm not sure exactly what lecture you watched, it probably, i would guess it was the one called, god is not a good theory. I wouldn't say that i was comparing the idea of god to physics. But there's a separate idea of god as something that helps us explain either the existence of the universe, or certain features of the universe,. Or so forth. To the extent that you attribute to god explanatory powers, you can also ate god as a scientific theory. And once you do that, it doesn't work very well. So i'm a hundred %, you know, happy to consider the possibility.

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