Alan Watts on the "Nature of God" - https://www.youtube.com…

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Alan Watts on the "Nature of God" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLg4AV60uWY

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Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's pipe. - Richard Dawkins

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Yes. Did you read or listen to Alan Watt's? There is nothing mystical nor supernatural in his description.

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And then you get stuck in a loop looking for a designer of the designer that in turn will have to be more complicated design.

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I did. He essentially claimed the argument of intelligent design. The basic problem with this argument is that a being capble of designing the universe will be a far more complicated design than the universe that it designed.

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Yes. I am familiar with the ID argument. I do not think Watts is saying that, quite the opposite

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What do you believe his argument was?

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That most people take "God" to mean something personal or a "Grand Father in the sky" instead of just using "God" to denote the primordial cosmic energy that we are all made of.

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Reminds me of Einstein's - You believe in a dice playing god and I in perfect laws, in the world of things existing as real objects.

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Watts is referring to that real thing.

- The vacuum energy
- Inflation
- Atman

Einstein was wrong regarding QM and his "dice quote" was used as a type of "rebuttal" to Bohr.

Fermi's response to Einstein: "Don't tell God what to do with his dice."