By the way, didn’t you say you had a PhD in physics? Because I’ve been trying to find some good public domain resources for physics, and I’ve found a few, but it’s not enough. Do you have any recommendation? I know about professor D’Hoofts ‘how to be a good physicist’ and I’m using that, but I’d also like to get some other resources.
That is my go-to link for self-study. You can also get most non-free textbooks cheap second-hand, by asking to borrow from a university prof (they tend to have a collection of older versions), or downloading them off libgen and clones. Plus the usual MIT OCW, edX and such.
Might I ask where that’s coming from? I have a fair bit of knowledge on the whole theology thing and I know that there are way too many problems to just come out with one post saying ‘God exists’ and some argument backing it up.
shminux made a post which was basically, “don’t bother arguing with me unless you’ve read and understood this book and these papers” and I pointed out that religious believers and other believers in anti-rationalist ideas use the very same tactics to try to shut down discussion of their ideas. I was not actually stating that one should study theology before talking about whether God exists. That was sarcasm.
Oh right. Well, I think the problem was due to a misunderstanding , so its all good. And hey! I got some reading recommendations out of it, which is never a bad thing.
Also, go do a couple years of study of theology before you can talk about whether God exists or not.
Doesn’t theology assume divine as a premise?
By the way, didn’t you say you had a PhD in physics? Because I’ve been trying to find some good public domain resources for physics, and I’ve found a few, but it’s not enough. Do you have any recommendation? I know about professor D’Hoofts ‘how to be a good physicist’ and I’m using that, but I’d also like to get some other resources.
That is my go-to link for self-study. You can also get most non-free textbooks cheap second-hand, by asking to borrow from a university prof (they tend to have a collection of older versions), or downloading them off libgen and clones. Plus the usual MIT OCW, edX and such.
Cheers.
Might I ask where that’s coming from? I have a fair bit of knowledge on the whole theology thing and I know that there are way too many problems to just come out with one post saying ‘God exists’ and some argument backing it up.
Yes, you’re taking it out of context.
shminux made a post which was basically, “don’t bother arguing with me unless you’ve read and understood this book and these papers” and I pointed out that religious believers and other believers in anti-rationalist ideas use the very same tactics to try to shut down discussion of their ideas. I was not actually stating that one should study theology before talking about whether God exists. That was sarcasm.
Oh right. Well, I think the problem was due to a misunderstanding , so its all good. And hey! I got some reading recommendations out of it, which is never a bad thing.