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Date: May 01, 2019 03:37PM
schrodingerscat Wrote:
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> Apparently nobody here can answer the question,
> What do you think Kaku and Einstein meant when
> they used the word 'god'?
> It seems to me like they were talking about the
> laws that govern nature.
> I could be wrong, but that sounds a lot like the
> Tao, the way of Nature and Logos, the divine
> reason that permeayes and animates the cosmos.
Or maybe we just don't consider the question worth answering. Maybe we don't consider Einstein's or Kaku's opinion on God or religion to be particularly important. You seem to be the only one obsessed with this. I agree with Henry when he says "In short, scientists have no better credentials to opine on this issue that any other thoughtful person."
What you keep doing is committing the fallacy of appeal to irrelevant authority
https://www.thoughtco.com/appeal-to-authority-logical-fallacy-1689120"The appeal to (false or irrelevant) authority is a fallacy in which a rhetor (public speaker or writer) seeks to persuade an audience not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for the famous.
Also known as ipse dixit and ad verecundiam, which means "he himself said it" and "argument to modesty or respect" respectively, appeals to authority rely entirely upon the trust the audience has as a speaker's integrity and expertise on the matter at hand.
As W.L. Reese puts it in "Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion," though, "not every appeal to authority commits this fallacy, but every appeal to an authority with respect to matters outside his special province commits the fallacy." Essentially, what he means here is that although not all appeals to authority are fallacies, most are — especially by rhetors with no authority on the topic of discussion."
No matter how much of an expert in physics your scientists were/are, that does not necessarily make them experts in any other field.