Posted: Mar 23, 2017 6:36 pm
Thommo wrote:Astronomy became scientific in the same way that medicine, physics, biology and other sciences did: Keep the bits that fit evidence, throw out the mythology and develop a rigorous method of inquiry.
If you do that to theology there's nothing left.
(A)
If we do that to typical archaic gods, entities with particular abilities remain:
(1) ability to create universes
(2) ability to create non-trivial intelligence
(B)
Modern neuroscience shows that humans can create non-trivial intelligence by learning tasks etc.
Modern events show humans creating sophisticated simulations of our cosmos.
So, universe yielding abilities are not separate from science.