"bazie, of course, this "quasi-religious" language can often lead to confusion and misconception. However, when someone like Michio Kaku uses the word "God," Kaku makes sure to be quite clear as to what he means when he says…"
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Alan Carter commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
" "MANKIND" abuses weaker animals across the board... enslaves hundreds of millions of humans
the strong the "psychopath " rule..... humankind deserves to be destroyed not fit for purpose "
Alan Carter commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"All this knowledge.. deep thought ..along comes a large a very large piece of rubbish from outer space...back to the caves if we are lucky cannibalism worship of a god trust me I'm a king "
taslima nasrin commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"4th of July is Higgs Boson Day. http://freethoughtblogs.com/taslima/2012/07/04/fourth-of-july-is-higgs-boson-day/"
Loren Miller commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"Let's just remember, gang, that it was originally supposed to be "The Goddamn Particle," because it was a bear to lock it down. Problem is, the editors didn't like the "damn."
As to what the Higgs Boson has to do…"
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"Matt, I am always a bit hesitant when physicists use "quasi-religious" terminology like genesis to talk about important physical things. Yes there is a naturalistic notion of genesis, but much like a word like "soul" it is so…"
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"We would have to believe in God. Which is a bit of a depressing thought, because that would mean we were believing in a genocidal maniac (assuming it was Yahweh that was proved). But such is life, we can't pick and choose the universe we live…"
Alan Carter commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"My dog has created a game for himself fight or wrestle the stone and pull up grass or dig the sand another thinking animal filling time with meaningless same as Plato and other restless thinkers "
Alan Carter commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"Life has no value live die its all the same meaningless a wast of time
we live on a world filled with death there is no" why"... just "is " we the so called thinking animal
create reasons other than need "
Anthony Jones commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"Although I can agree with the desire for the universe to maintain some of its mystery, which it definitely still holds, the only way we are to see the end of theism as an alternative to science (as obviously some theists and all creationists still…"
Matt--Lukin commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
" You know that the original location for the LHC being in the U.S.A., but in a conference, when a physicist was asked the key question by a congressman, "We will find God with the super collider?" The physicist's response was,…"
Alan Perlman commented on bazie's blog post The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
"Very edifying. It's always very effective when atheists bring their fields of expertise to bear on questions of religion and belief (mine is linguistics, which reveals the truth about the "holy texts").
Believers will…"
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The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
Oh how I wish the recently demonstrated Higgs Boson, which bestows mass on particles, had never acquired the moniker the 'God Particle'. I suppose there is one benefit: it increases the attention and coverage about a very cool and significant question, just solved, in particle physics. But it does so with the false implication that this has anything remotely to do with God when in reality it counts neither…See More
Alan Perlman commented on bazie's blog post Religion and Language: Quasi-Religious Terminology
"But what keeps them coming back? It's all God's plan? Mystery upopn mystery."
bazie commented on bazie's blog post Religion and Language: Quasi-Religious Terminology
"Religious people are often very willing to immediately jump to God in the face of adversity (like the woman being swindled), and to credit God for any luck or positive outcome. I have followed many religious conversion stories, and it very often is…"
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The God Particle, and what it has to do with God
Posted on July 4, 2012 at 2:51pm 13 Comments 1 Like
Oh how I wish the recently demonstrated Higgs Boson, which bestows mass on particles, had never…
Religion and Language: Quasi-Religious Terminology
Posted on July 1, 2012 at 9:21am 3 Comments 0 Likes
There are a host of commonly used words in the English language which I like to call quasi-religious. Words like soul, spiritual, fate, mother nature, energy, and the like. These are words which have two sets of connotations, one which is spiritual and one which is largely secular, whose different meanings often get used interchangeably.
Take the soul. On the one hand there is a mystical connotation. It is something separate from the body, which may well survive…
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