This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.
Either god exists or it doesn__ exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way or it doesn__. If it doesn__, that god is indistinguishable from a non-existent god. That only leaves a god who interacts with the universe in some detectable way. But if science, which is the greatest realization of the use of our senses to, you know, detect things, hasn__ found this god, that doesn__ say much for individuals.In short, the god you__e created is, in fact, undetectable by science. The limits of science are not the province of religious knowledge. Where science is ignorant, so is religion. The only difference is that religion lacks the integrity of science.
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Either god exists or it doesn__ exist. If a god does exist, it either interacts with the universe in some detectable way or it doesn__. If it doesn__, that god is indistinguishable from a non-existent god. That only leaves a god who interacts with the universe in some detectable way. But if science, which is the greatest realization of the use of our senses to, you know, detect things, hasn__ found this god, that doesn__ say much for individuals.In short, the god you__e created is, in fact, undetectable by science. The limits of science are not the province of religious knowledge. Where science is ignorant, so is religion. The only difference is that religion lacks the integrity of science.
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