I often imagine what someone like Newton, one of the greatest minds in recorded history imho, would discover today. Hell how much more would he have discovered if he hadn't given up and used the "god of the gaps" excuse on perturbation theory? This is a man that invented calculus on basically a dare and he doesn't mention God anywhere in his work until he comes upon the multiple body problem with gravitation. Then we get this:
"This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.
And if the fixed stars are the centers of similar systems, they will all be constructed according to a similar design and subject to the dominion of the One ... And so that the system of the fixed stars will not fall upon one another as a result of their gravity, he has placed them at immense distances from one another."
Then he basically gave up on trying to solve the problem.
Some heretic Catholic from like the 19th century. He tried to convince people that the earth wasn't flat or something.who?
God is a cop out for a lot of people these days.
Yea, but there's less of an excuse these days. I'm more willing to give those old guys a pass than someone today. When you don't know much, the supernatural is more plausible. Today, we have real world "magic", so it isn't a stretch to extend that to other things we don't understand, and assume there's a logical explanation that simply needs to be prised out,As I stated, it isn't just these days.
He would have found porn and never been heard from again.
Yea, but there's less of an excuse these days. I'm more willing to give those old guys a pass than someone today. When you don't know much, the supernatural is more plausible. Today, we have real world "magic", so it isn't a stretch to extend that to other things we don't understand, and assume there's a logical explanation that simply needs to be prised out,