Re: Could an eventual discovery in physics \"discover\" god?
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In the past decade the exponential growth in technology has created a similar acceleration in the discoveries regarding theoretical physics. Things like M-Theory, discovery of black holes of predictable size at the center of every galaxy, and a lot of other things that are seemingly impossible to make sense of.
Getting back on track, the question is on a long enough timescale there will be some discovery which explains existance and explain those questions that bewilder 99.5% of people right now.
Once this discovery is made will there not be a one true god? It would simply be a religion of science with answers to all the questions one person could ever want the answer to about the universe.
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What you describe could happen I suppose, but wouldn't qualify as God, almost by definition. The term God is typically used to invoke a super-natural being responsible for the universe and (to varying degrees) its function. There is nothing supernatural about the scenario you describe. If anything, the scenario you describe would provide the most compelling evidence that's theoretically possible for God's non-existence.
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