The Search for Meaning in a Secular Age workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, CA, April 18–20, 2025, led by Dr. Michael Shermer and Dr. Ralph Lewis
The current state of atheism is rejection. It can not thrive. It should give an idea of endless pursuit. Atheism is the rejection of the deities, not a religion. We need religion without gods
I used to think God was very unlikely - there's no evidence for Him, tho I suppose He's logically possible. Then I heard about Bostrom's Simulation Argument (actually from Barrow and Tipler's Anthropic Cosmological Principle book, so before Bostrom).
If there are vastly more simulations than "base" universes, we're vastly more likely to be in a simulation than "base". And each simulation has...a simulator. Maybe not omniscient and omnipotent or even good, but the creator of our universe. I think that qualifies as "God".
https://open.substack.com/pub/luciferv/p/in-the-beginning-was-the-word?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=5e4lda
The current state of atheism is rejection. It can not thrive. It should give an idea of endless pursuit. Atheism is the rejection of the deities, not a religion. We need religion without gods
https://douglasj.substack.com/p/human-morality-was-largely-developed?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=6980s&triedRedirect=true
How about some Scientific Comedy to pass down that agey narratives?: :)
https://open.substack.com/pub/federicosotodelalba/p/sci-and-math-are-having-a-second?r=4up0lp
I used to think God was very unlikely - there's no evidence for Him, tho I suppose He's logically possible. Then I heard about Bostrom's Simulation Argument (actually from Barrow and Tipler's Anthropic Cosmological Principle book, so before Bostrom).
If there are vastly more simulations than "base" universes, we're vastly more likely to be in a simulation than "base". And each simulation has...a simulator. Maybe not omniscient and omnipotent or even good, but the creator of our universe. I think that qualifies as "God".
Typo: we roamed the plains of Africa, not the planes of Africa. :-)
https://www.discovery.org/e/dallas/