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• Los sucesos cuánticos ocurren sin más, sin causa alguna, como cuando un átomo radiactivo se desintegra en un momento aleatorio. Incluso el vacío cuántico no es un vacío inerte, sino que hierve con fluctuaciones cuánticas. En nuestro mundo macroscópico, estamos acostumbrados a la conservación de la energía, pero en el reino cuántico esto sólo es válido en promedio. Las fluctuaciones energéticas de la nada crean pares partícula-antipartícula efímeros, por lo que el vacío no es el vacío, sino un mar de partículas transitorias. Un principio no causado, incluso de la nada, para el espaciotiempo no es un gran salto de la imaginación.

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  Average, Sea, Imagination

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• Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

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  Religion, Boundaries, Metaphysical

  Taner Edis (2002). “The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science”, Pyr Books

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• Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

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  Libertarian, Achieve

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• Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.

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  Escritura, Corazón, Realidad

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• To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

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  Religion, Events, Physics

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• Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

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  Religion, Able, Mechanic

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• Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

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  Lying, Religion, Asking

  Taner Edis (2002). “The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science”, Pyr Books

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• In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space. However, the Big Bang is the beginning of spacetime itself, not an event in time.

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  Space, Imagination, Religion

  Taner Edis (2002). “The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science”, Pyr Books

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• Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.

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  Religion, Vacuums, Quagmire

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• When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels liked to restrict causality to the chain of causes in an eternal material universe, pointing out that no supernatural cause was then necessary. Plausible, but still rather defensive. Today's skeptic can do better. In all likelihood, the universe is uncaused. It is random. It just is.

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  Religion, Demand, Causality

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• Por supuesto, el comentario de Jastrow es exagerado en el mejor de los casos; los teólogos apenas predijeron el Big Bang. Si nuestro universo resulta ser cerrado, por tanto con un final, esto no significa que las visiones apocalípticas del fin del mundo dieran en el blanco. E incluso si un principio para el universo es una predicción acertada de una versión del teísmo, esto sigue sin ser tan impresionante. Después de todo, incluso un reloj parado acierta dos veces al día. El Big Bang se convierte en un fuerte apoyo para Dios sólo con un argumento que demuestre que tal comienzo requiere un Creador.

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  Strong, Mean, Successful

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