Phillip Winn writes:
Scientia ex machina
An interesting article from an Economist blog includes a fascinating observation from the point of view of a rationalist atheist (as far as I know). While delighting in a book that ostensibly demolishes 36 arguments for the existence of God, the author notes that some branches of science, like theoretical physics, appear to have abandoned some of the very arguments often used to deny God, namely that assertions must be testable.
“[S]tring theorists have been going around for decades talking about an 11-dimensional universe where we can only directly perceive four of the dimensions, and the multiverse hypothesis seems to involve positing an infinite variety of universes that no one could ever perceive, even in theory. It’s not always readily apparent to non-physicists why this kind of talk is less supernatural than a belief in the persistence of the soul after death.”
It’s short, so read the whole thing.
