God: The Failed Hypothesis
So besides sleeping late and catching up on Battlestar Galactica’s second season, I’ve purchased Victor Stenger’s God: The Failed Hypothesis to get me through my spring break. I haven’t finished the book (in fact, I’m the kind of person who will read five or six books simultaneously at an equal glacial rate), but I’m almost done and it’s worth a quick comment.
Stenger describes specific experiments that could actually support the existence of a personal god. He argues that only a completely irrelevant deity would leave no trace or evidence. If there’s a God, an omnipresent creator with any impact on the natural universe, he would be detectable by natural science.
Was the universe fine tuned? Does our morality come from God? After defining a God model, a falsifiable list of characteristics assigned to God, Stenger refutes the God model with science.
Overall, Victor Stenger provides a welcome, necessary addition to the chain of blasphemic best sellers.
Can one not say that God left evidence of his existence all over the place, given that He may also have establihsed the natural laws that allowed the universe to form?
What Stenger is implying in this argument is that God established the natural laws of order, then to leave evidence of himself, would then break those natural laws to indicate His presence.
Illogical. Like programming the phrase “God was here” to appear in every DNA helix for us to understand.
I’ve examined Stenger’s arguments. They’re all suffer from significant logical flaws.
Only if one could show God did establish natural laws. Although Stenger, himself, spent a good portion of the book explaining how the laws of physics could have come naturally, from the universe itself, I’ll play along if you can give me any sort of reason to believe God did this.
According to the Bible, this would be no feat. Not only has your god been known to answer prayers and perform miracles (the definition of miracle is “An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature…”), but without the idea of God “breaking his own laws”, there would be no Resurrection. Christianity would not exist!
The world would be a much different place with a Creator, a deity capable of answering prayers and performing miracles. Wow is it unreasonable to expect a shred of evidence?
How much by Stenger have you read anyway?
I am surprised that god did not warn his messengers of atheists like Darwin, Dawkins et al. There also is no reference to the dinossaurs and the other pre-historic creatures( to my knowledge) in any of the scriptures.Nor have his followers been warned of the theory of natural selection.
Looks like even God could not see far into the future