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December 10 - December 10, 2020
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists since its consistency cannot be proved.”
Looking for God in science is like breaking open a television set to look for the tiny actors inside.
As a tangential consideration, imagine that we could use ignorance as automobile fuel. We would never need to import another ounce of oil. In fact, we would have huge energy surpluses but nowhere to send it. Could Texas maintain its preeminent position as a natural energy resource?
To quote the physicist Luis Alvarez, “There is no democracy in science.”
When your teacher tells you that the distance to the moon is a quarter of a million miles or that there are two protons in a helium nucleus, you have no way of verifying it, do you? So you take it on faith. That’s no different from having faith in a religious worldview.
Imagine that everyone believed in God’s existence but was wrong—what a magnificent error that would be.

