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Lausten replied to the topic How do you define atheism for your purposes? in the forum Humanism 5 years, 5 months ago
Iām not terribly interested in discussing Krauss or how he communicates. Itās causing more heat than light in this discussion. So, Iāll agree with the above, āthey have nothing whatsoever to say on the subject of where those fields came from, or of why the world should have consisted of the particular kinds of fields it does, or of why it should have consisted of fields at all,ā. Given that, the question is then, what do these fields tell us about God? I canāt find anything about God in quantum physics. No matter what words you use to describe it. Nor can I find proof, even philosophically, that you canāt explain the presence of the universe.
If the theories are giving us anything, they are giving us an explanation of how time, space and matter can have an origin of some type, that does not need to rely on a supernatural explanation. Itās an explanation of something that we donāt sense physically and maybe will never ever fully understand, and maybe weāre wrong about, but itās an attempt. I donāt see a reason to switch to philosophical answers that involve claims that we will never be able to prove or disprove the current theories, or if we do that those proofs will just require another theory to show where those things came from, therefore, itās never ending. We showed that this physical universe and itās time, has a beginning, and we think that there is something existing that isnāt bound by time, but whatever it is, itās natural, it has shown no signs of intelligence. Maybe the thing we find that led to quantum mechanics will show intelligence, I donāt know, but as yet, I donāt see anything to do except to keep studying what we can with the tools we have.



