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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
But the cool thing about that is that there is very little ethical consequence of either route. If tommorow it's somehow proved beyond realistic doubt the universe came into being on x date (precisely) for such and such reasons. So what? Does this change beauty, or freedom, or anything else? But you bring God into things, it has a hell of an impact on everything else. To quote the biologist Richard Lewontin, either God has some sort of "interventionist" role (i.e. he can and does affect things) or he does not. If the former is true then science is basically a joke, if the latter is true then God is an irrelevence.
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It's not about ethical consequences. No one is bringing God into the equation. But He may be needed to explain the origin of the Universe. How about God has no interventionist role, but merely 'jump-started the big bang'? Science would not be a joke, and God would not be irrelevant.
I'm going to bed now. nn
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