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Theology got left at the door
Gary — (archived)

Mary Anne said:

>It started out, basically, saying that God is not involved, and then >proceeds to try to argue scientifically why God is not involved. I say >"try" because theology is not subject to scientific method.

I "believe" there is no valid data that establishes the existance or nonexistance of God. That defines me as an agnostic. As a scientist, I find the conjecture that the Laws of Physics arose from chaos to be a very interesting proposition. My job is to model physical phenomena with mathematics and computer programs. I'm intrigued by the possibility that fundamental physical laws could be simulated from purely radom processes. This line-of-enquiry has the potential for scientific payoff. For example, the Standard Model was found empirically, refer to:

http://www.cpepweb.org/cpep_sm_large.html

Nobody really knows why the Standard Model is true. If I ran a Conway Game of Life / Monte Carlo hybrid code and the Standard Model popped out as a result then that would be an extremely interesting discovery.

Gary

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