Sunday, February 17, 2013

Physics Jokes Part 2: Anthropomorphical Boogaloo

Seems unlikely that Physics ought to prefer a Methodist to a Presbyterian or something similar no?  Taken from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, all rights go to Zach Weinersmith.
There is a principle in physics that is highly hated, and adhering to it gets you a lot of crap, known as the Anthropomorphic principle. The argument goes a lot like roughly saying "we exist, so the universe was made this way so it could happen." This is bad science. This is putting results before reasons, and arguing that implication works in reverse, logic simply does not work like that. Furthermore, if we say that our physics, that allow so beautifully for us to exist, argues design, who's design? Carrying this argument suddenly becomes vary precarious. Did god design physics for the Christians or the Hindus? how far do you you want to take it? Did he design physics for Catholics? The fact is that mathematical and physical sciences are nearly entirely secularized in their truths. However this needn't be a disproof of the entirety of faith, as many feel. Instead, perhaps this is a reason for unity of faith, no-one of us is any more favored than another.

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