Bollore's ID book and deep finger lake dream

[ionelv]

Today, I read that two Frenchmen published a book in 2022 (translated into English last year) that supposedly proves God's existence with science and reason. The Atlantic's review was lukewarm (if not somewhat dismissive). While reading one of the endorsements about hundreds of citations from renowned scientists for this "proof", all I could think of was Einstein's response to the 100 scientists that criticized his theory of relativity in 1931:

"Why 100? If I were wrong, one would have been enough."

Last night, I had a very interesting dream: I was paddling on a crystal clear, deep, long and thin lake (with 3D-tetris or pyramid-like blocks on the bottom) towards my house which was at the other end. Eventually, as I approached the house, the lake got very shallow and I had to portage my canoe to get to the house. [ Background for my dream: US is closing off an 80+ year old border road that was used by both Canadians and Americans due to security concerns, in addition to sporadic climate change updates, daily Iran and Hormuz news. Also, yesterday I commuted to/from work via my usual two hours drive + two hours train ride.]

Comments

[thewayne]

Driving to work I pass a billboard that says "Jesus is real, the evidence is irrefutable". And I just have to think 'Really? This word you keep using, I don't think it means what you think it means.'

If people want to believe in religion, that's fine. Just don't throw it in my face or try to legislate it into rules for everyone's behavior.

[ionelv]

Inconceivable :) The legislating part that is :)