{"id":6789,"date":"2009-11-24T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T11:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/11\/the-problem-of-theoretical-sci.html"},"modified":"2009-11-24T11:53:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T11:53:56","slug":"the-problem-of-theoretical-sci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2009\/11\/the-problem-of-theoretical-sci.html","title":{"rendered":"The problem of theoretical science"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s an interesting blog post at the Economist<\/a> on Rebecca Goldstein’s new novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction<\/a>\"\". The blogger notes that the refutation of some of the arguments in the appendix of the novel (written by the protagonist)<\/a> do not take into consideration the current state of science:<\/p>\n

One source of strength for the scientific side, in the centuries-long clash of scientific and theistic worldviews, has always been that science didn’t involve anything supernatural or untestable. But string 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If the novel is published on Kindle, I think I’ll buy it. It will make a good companion to another book I’m reading on my iTouch now, Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies<\/a>\"\" \ud83d\ude42
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