Quantum weirdness; Multiworld theory (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, November 02, 2014, 15:13 (3460 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: [...] Life, consciousness and the quantum world are all counterintuitive, but since they all exist, there has to be an explanation for their existence. Until we find out what it is (and I doubt if we ever will), you and the atheists are stuck: they can't explain life, consciousness or the quantum world, and you can't explain God. As I have said elsewhere, it all comes down to faith.-DAVID: Yes it comes down to faith:
From GK today: "I think evolution seems to work just like the rock record and experiments shows it works. The only question left for me is the "knowingly dabbling" component of the discussion. I can't really answer that so the next thing I can do is come up with solutions that seem to match observations with the least amount of assumptions."
Why do I use his quote? One logical approach to 'least assumptions' is the faith in God as a concept solves everything easily. -You have conveniently overlooked GK's comment that the “old guy in the sky [...] makes more assumptions than a star makes neutrinos.”-DAVID: Feels good to me. And lots of famous philosophers accept First Cause. If you accept cause and effect as a valid concept, you are logically stuck!-If your approach feels good to you, then of course you should stick with it, so long as you accept that it is a matter of faith, and other faiths or even lack of faith are just as reasonable and/or unreasonable as your own. I do accept First Cause, but not when it is used as an argument for the existence of God, because then you endow First Cause with an identity and specific attributes. We agreed before that First Cause may be energy.