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bazie, of course, this "quasi-religious" language can often lead to confusion and misconception. However, when someone like Michio Kaku uses the word "God," Kaku makes sure to be quite clear as to what he means when he says "God." He does not mean an "all-powerful entity," the "God" of intervention and prayer, a "personal God," the God that George Carlin made fun of, he always makes sure to stress this point. He, of course, means God in the same sense that Einstein used it, the God of Spinoza, the God of elegance, order, harmony, and simplicity. That's why I said, "Now, this is just Kaku, if you're familiar with his work, just pleasing the crowd there to get a project like that going using such words as 'deity,'" meaning that Kaku was using that rhetoric only for show or as I said "to please the crowd." He didn't mean it literally as a reflection of his own beliefs. He just couldn't believe that the decision to scrap that project boiled down to a clumsy response to an obscure question, you see.
I read your blog (if it was your blog) on the use of what you're calling "quasi-religious" language. I sort of have a different take on that which I've posted under the guise of "Perennial Philosophy," which I've sort of stirred up an ongoing debate at another atheist forum that is a place where local theists where I'm from chat at. I'll link you, but they recently made the forum private, so if it prompts you for a password, use this one here:
User: deakon210@yahoo.com
Password: master1
That's a new account I made for this purpose, so you may not be able to access it until about a day or so because it takes a little while for them to finally activiate it, hopefully you don't see this post until it's activated. And here's the link to the thread:
http://www.sa-atheists.org/messages/boards/thread/22114442/10
"MANKIND" abuses weaker animals across the board... enslaves hundreds of millions of humans
the strong the "psychopath " rule..... humankind deserves to be destroyed not fit for purpose
All this knowledge.. deep thought ..along comes a large a very large piece of rubbish from outer space...back to the caves if we are lucky cannibalism worship of a god trust me I'm a king
4th of July is Higgs Boson Day. http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2012/07/04/fourth-of-july-is-hi...
Let's just remember, gang, that it was originally supposed to be "The Goddamn Particle," because it was a bear to lock it down. Problem is, the editors didn't like the "damn."
As to what the Higgs Boson has to do with god? How about ABSOLUTELY NOTHING?!?
Matt, I am always a bit hesitant when physicists use "quasi-religious" terminology like genesis to talk about important physical things. Yes there is a naturalistic notion of genesis, but much like a word like "soul" it is so attached to the deistic notion that it just begs confusion and misinterpretation, not to mention detracting from the beauty and majesty by borrowing rhetoric with religious baggage.
For more: http://progressiveproselytizing.blogspot.ca/2012/06/religion-and-la...
I said the exact same thing yesterday while watching the report on the news. But at the same time, the christians would just say that god has allowed us to now see the particle now as proof of his being anyway, regardless of what we name it. Unfortunately, when you live in a mythical world, you can just make up shit as you go along.
Perhaps the 'Godless Particle' may have been more to the point.
My dog has created a game for himself fight or wrestle the stone and pull up grass or dig the sand another thinking animal filling time with meaningless same as Plato and other restless thinkers
Life has no value live die its all the same meaningless a wast of time
we live on a world filled with death there is no" why"... just "is " we the so called thinking animal
create reasons other than need
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