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Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem
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God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance.
One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.
I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.
To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it.
The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.
