-Do you believe in God?
-Of course not.
-Why not?
-Because there is no need for God in our modern world.
-How come?
-People used to believe in God because they couldn’t explain rain, wind, birth and all other aspects of life. They had to resort to the unseen, the supernatural. Now, we can explain everything around us scientifically without the need to introduce anything beyond the realm of science.
-Is that so? What about all this energy and matter in the universe, where did it come from? According to the first law of thermodynamics, matter and energy cannot be created.
-Wait a minute. As you know there is a theory accepted by the majority of scientists (the Big Bang) which says that all matter and energy were concentrated in a tiny spot (singularity) some 13 billion years ago. At singularity, all physical and material laws break down.
-So when our scientific laws can’t explain a physical phenomena, you say the law breaks down. Never mind. What do you think of quantum mechanics and its implications?
-What about it? It further weakens the idea of God, because it shows that, if there is a God, he enjoys playing dice with the world he created…
-You atheists are even stranger than quantum mechanics…If the universe is governed exactly by precise physical laws, you claim that everything is explained perfectly via scientific laws; hence there is no need for God. And if the universe behaves strangely in an unpredictable probabilistic way, you claim that if there is any God, he doesn’t know how to govern the world he created.
-But that’s perfectly true. The world which you claimed to be created by God is not consistent. If as you said there is one God who created everything, shouldn’t this world have the same nature…
-Not at all, and I shall use your own argument to beat it. You said a while ago that failure to explain physical phenomena made our ancestors believe in a supernatural being, and since modern science enabled us to explain these phenomena, hence there is no need for God, right?
-Right.
-What if our own modern science conveyed to us the undisputed fact that there is an absolute limit to our “knowledge” (uncertainty principle), I don’t think that there is any physicist, believer or not, who thinks that 1000 years from now we shall be able to measure the position or velocity more precisely than the limit imposed by Heisenberg principle. So science taught us that there is an area where we can never step in, not now, not ever. What does that tell you?
-It tells me there is no God.
-The exact same thing tells me there is definitely God.
-I knew we would never agree on this issue.
-Me too...