Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Its not a mistake and never can be a mistake when you are comparing two subjective realities, all that you can say with any certainty is which one appears more plausible to you.
You're missing the point of why goddidit isn't very useful in science, which is that as soon as you go there in your mind, your scientific progress on the particular problem grinds to a halt, full stop, hits the wall at two hundred. This is a very useless state of mind in science.
For the record, we live in one reality, with nothing to compare it with. I just don't believe there's more to it than meets the ideal scientific instrumentation and methods, and our understanding of it is only as good as the greatest scientific minds can explain.
Beyond that lies the ignorance (what you call a different reality), the only place where superstitious vodoo mumbo jumbo thrives, enjoy it as we occasionally might, until instrumentation and methods improve further and new great minds push supersticious nonsense ever deeper into that diminishing (yet curiously infinite) space I like to call lala land.
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Nah, I'm just kidding.
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Goddidit makes total sense. Truly it does. It begs so many testable, answerable questions that I personally don't think humanity will ever satisfactorally answer them all. Who but god, eh? No matter how much we manage to answer and understand, if there are still things we find mysterious, hard to understand or their natural explanations improbable, it's good to know that there's always that Newton escape:
This most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets, and Comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Replace irregular planetary orbits with whatever you find curious today (BBB), and you'll also stop making progress on that problem: "what natural process could possibly explain this?" Yes! This a one-time offer. You too can retard your scientific development. All you have to do is embrace a more religious manner of thought, and it's more or less guaranteed.
Please take note! You should still do science where it doesn't conflict with religion. That way we can claim that science and religion works together. Look at that great scientist over there, so deeply religious.
{Looking left and right, whispering:}
Don't tell anyone. I think they're on to us.