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AMA | March 2022

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

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Is God a Good Theory?

Scientists need to do better at their philosophy of science, he says. God is a perfectly good theory and we should judge it in exactly the same way as any other scientific theory - one way or the other. I think that if god existed, the world wouldbe a very different place. It would be very, very noticeable if god existed. That's the whole point. And so it's not a matter of saying, we don't need falsifyability any more. We want theories that are definite in what they say about what happens in the universe,. ok?

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