Could an eventual discovery in physics "discover" god?

[FatalError]

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.

[AWoodside]

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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.

[bunny]

I dont agree that the question of god's existence is about finding answers. It's a metaphysical question about whether the universe was created by some intelligent being (and what characteristics that being has).

If science somehow discovered that there was not only no need for a creator but that the universe "just happened" then I dont think it would be supplanting God. I think it would be eliminating him.

I guess science could play the part of an unintelligent god, if there was some "higher power" which caused the universe or some such. Not if God is taken to be loving, personal, all the other things people usually refer to when they speak of God.

[Arp220]

If we ever reach the point where we know 'everything', and have answers to all questions, then by definition we would be omniscient - we would BE 'God'.

[tpir]

Maybe God is hiding in the "dark matter". Maybe the "dark energy" has some form of sentience. Who knows? Only time will tell. Or maybe it won't, since our brains might not understand what we find.

[NotReady]

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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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Whatever answer you get through finite means will produce another question. Only omniscience can answer all questions. But atheists are human too and can't really go very long without hope.

[Praxising]

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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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That is God, by definition: Truth. The Way Things Work.

The idea that "God" is necessarily an individualized Being is limited to only some cultures/religions. God is, in Christianity as well as almost every other mystical religion, defined as "light," or "creative force."

Religion has always been science - trying to figure out TWTW. If you read the stories in the first part of Scripture, they explain why the sky is blue, why there are seashells in the desert, why there are always more wolves than deer.

God isn't "supernatural" there is no such thing. What's more natural than God? Looking for the afterlife? The "Heavenly realm?" Call it Dark Matter.

You are, sir, right on.



(yeah - I'm old)

[luckyme]

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why there are always more wolves than deer.

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Is that a workable ecosystem?

luckyme

[Praxising]

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why there are always more wolves than deer.

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Is that a workable ecosystem?

luckyme

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Yeah, I messed that one up, didn't I?

::ahem:: More deer than wolves.

[Jetboy2]

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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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As far as I'm concerned, Hinduism could be proven correct!