Emily VelascoMar 17

I once told a friend of mine that I'm agnostic about quantum physics because we can't see it or feel it with our own senses and we have to use elaborate rituals conducted by a special class of people who say "we have the esoteric knowledge to interpret all of this" and that that's not that different than religious belief.

He got mad at me.

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I've heard religion described as "Not even wrong." Quantum physics is at least falsifiable. Which is to say if you did study it, you could figure out if it was real. No amount of studying religion can help you figure out whether their gods are real though. If you haven't studied it though, you have no way to know that, and you're just taking my word for it, which isn't dissimilar to most people's notion of religion.

So basically you don't know that physics is more sensible, because you never checked. Which is fine, but it doesn't mean you can say quantum physics and religion are not all that different. It would be like me saying Milan and Istanbul are not all that different, when I've never been there.
Mar 17 at 11:09pmWeb