{"id":173,"date":"2012-01-30T00:00:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4gi.wtf\/wp\/?p=173"},"modified":"2021-12-08T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T18:17:24","slug":"leaps-of-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/?p=173","title":{"rendered":"Leaps of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

“God explains everything.”<\/p>\n

That’s an expression of faith.<\/p>\n

“Science can explain everything without invoking a god; there is no need to believe in god.”<\/p>\n

If science has<\/em> explained everything, then why are there still scientists?<\/p>\n

“Science hasn’t explained everything yet<\/em>, but can<\/em> explain everything eventually.”<\/p>\n

Isn’t that, also, an expression of faith?<\/p>\n

— Ron<\/span>\u00a0– 2012-01-30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“God explains everything.” That’s an expression of faith. “Science can explain everything without invoking a god; there is no need to believe in god.” If science has explained everything, then why are there still scientists? “Science hasn’t explained everything yet, but can explain everything eventually.” Isn’t that, also, an expression of faith? — Ron\u00a0– 2012-01-30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/looseassociations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}