Dragaera

The Religion Debate

Sat Nov 30 11:58:47 PST 2002

On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 01:16:43PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:

> > Hmmm.  Okay, Gedanken experiment: If there is an objectively existing
> > god who cannot be perceived, and has no effect on the material world,
> > how does this differ from there being no god?
> 
> It proves the existence of something other than the material world,
> probably; and if so that's a major change, and very interesting. 

Einstein went the other way with the luminiferous aether: if something's there
but makes absolutely no difference, we might as well ignore it.

-xx- Damien X-)