Well, I was trying to point out a similarity between believing in dark matter and believing in god. Which, like all similarities, works only up to a point. But I wasn't trying to claim that they were alternatives of each other.Fist and Faith wrote:What effect do you see that makes you know there's something, which you believe to be God? And why are specific effects attributed to the theorized dark matter, rather than to God?wayfriend wrote:People believe in dark matter. No one knows what the F it is. But they see it's effect, so they know there's something. Their belief doesn't depend on understanding it.
But I could answer the first one. However, I doubt I can recall a whole lifetime of "Ah ha" moments and write them down. Still, I can say some of the things.
One of the things is that prompts me to believe in a divine intelligence is that Darwinism cannot explain so many things we find in living things. There are species variations that have no possible evolutionary path from not-having-it to having-it. And speciation has occurred far more rapidly and widely than can be predicted by the theory. Some forms of life are just so perfect for their niche that one has to wonder what else is going on.
Then there is the whole the-universe-is-to-perfect thing.
And then sometimes I wonder why is there a universe at all. If nothing existed, what force or impulse could there be to cause something to exist?
Sure, all of these things (and some others) can be answered with "it's not god, it's something else, we just don't know what it is yet". So it's not a "proof" of god. But, like I said, it's where my inclination to believe arises.
It may turn out after all that dark matter doesn't exist either. It's just a theory.