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"Science, it works, bitches!"

I like that quote.




I like this "retreating god" idea. Catchy! I definitely do see it, and agree with you wholeheartedly.

Learning about physics, I mean actually learning about it, would cause you to renounce religion, not convert to it.
It is an interesting hypothesis, but then how would you explain the phenomena of religious scientists not just educated in science but among the nation's leading experts?
I think that a lot of people with religious feeling don't feel the need to analyze their religion very deeply.  Particularly I've known people who don't understand the utility of questioning a religion that has almost no consequence in their life.  Ironically, a lot of religious people, I've found, are "blissfully ignorant."

Thanks!  I first got the idea listening to a youtuber.  I think it was Aronra.

That sounds like most conversations that most people have about physics. Generally speaking people have little understanding of science at all, let alone physics.
I've been in a debate/discussion most the night now and it has almost turned to physics a couple times. I kept this discussion in mind as I said, "Well, I'm not a scientist but I saw one on tv and he said..." Anyway, it was rather funny because just as you said it was the theist who jumped into physics to try to create a god-in-the-gaps argument.
I know right?  People in debates should be modest enough not to venture into topics they know very little about.  Unfortunately, saying "I don't know" about anything, even the most complicated of topics, can be a death knell if the person you're talking to is acutely immature.
ShockofGod is a deceptive, egotistical, pompous prick and that is speaking well of him at best. I went to his chat-room once and the man would not let me speak and when I did have a time to speak I was cut off when he felt he was losing the argument. He had a 15 year old as a moderator begging me to cuss so he could ban me. Im surprised that the discussion even got far enough to physics without shock screaming that all atheists are stupid and evil.
Shock is habitually vitriolic and insensitive.  That's a whole other topic though haha

It is a pretty common thing. Even very educated theists like Deepak Chopra butcher physics, trying to make their point. He did that during his 2010 debate with Michael Shermer & Sam Harris "Does God Have a Future". 

You can check out the whole debate on youtube - here is the link to the first video(of 12).


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