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Originally Posted by jayswin
I'll say one thing. I grew up christian and believed in God and then became a staunch atheist in my 20's until recently. But man, the more we learn about quantum mechanics the less inclined I feel to be so sure of anything really.
I've definitely moved from atheist to agnostic in recent time and can definitely see that what we think is real and provable may actually not be even close to reality. And it's not even pie in the sky stuff. Mathematically it actually makes more sense than anything.
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Interesting take, I would be interested to hear more about which part of quantum mechanics you hone in on? I know the lack of understanding leaves a lot of space for some sort of mysticism to creep in, but to me those guys are doing the same thing that religions are doing, they are garbing to gaps in our knowledge and spouting certain revealed wisdom as the answer.
To me with the caveat that even the experts don't understand what we know about quantum mechanics, 2 big things really support a naturalistic (non-agnostic) approach. Super-position, the very fact we can' even define where something "is" just shows how much room there is for our naturalistic understanding of the universe to expand before we have to resort to something unexplainable as an explanation. Imaginary Particles, the fact that matter / anti-matter can spontaneously spring into existence removes the needs for a first mover to the universe, it's very reasonable to believe there could have been a natural first movement that just happened.