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Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by gbrown on Monday January 25, 2021 @08:22AM (#25902812)
Hmm, I’m not sure I understand your point. Scientists explicitly try to avoid positing magical things, and even when things get into the realm of untestability at our scale, it’s hedged:

“Here’s a cosmological model that might be true given our current data”

Vs

“Here’s a magical anthropocentric religious explanation for anything I can’t immediately explain”

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Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by jtbayly on Monday January 25, 2021 @05:53PM (#25910062)
"Here’s a cosmological model that..." requires a magical explanation for anything I can't immediately explain. Let's call it... say... dark matter?
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Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by gbrown on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @08:43AM (#25915666)
You’re revealing your ignorance of modern physics, as well as some pretty astonishing hubris. You’d compare dark mater, which has numerous possible explanations all of which are in search of empirical tests, to the panoply of human religions?
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Re:The people the suburbs were built for are gone by jtbayly on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:58AM (#25918173)
No. I'd compare faith to faith. One of which declares that there is something above this universe (God), while the other declares without proof that there isn't. (And then large numbers of proponents of the latter posit that we are living in a simulation, thus demonstrating that... they believe there is something above this universe. lol.) Either way it's faith.
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