Damien Sullivan <phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes: > 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. Now wait a minute; the ether was ruled out by experiment in 1887 by the Michelson-Morley experiment. Einstein was 8 years old at that point. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info