For a really smart man Sean Carroll sometimes makes really silly arguments. For me the point he makes in the video below has to be one of his worst:
I wonder what kind of review of his book "Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity" a class of kindergartners would give. I'm guessing that opinion would be divided on how clearly he explained the universe!
It appears that it has never occurred to Sean that he might not be the intended audience of God's book...
If the Bible is true then cleverness is not the primary path to knowing God, love is, and there is hope in the fact that there is a Hidden God to find. If God really delights in seekers then the Bible is exactly the kind of textbook I would expect to be useful; a collection of both the simple and the profound, a combination of stories for kids and puzzles for the wise, problems with worked examples and extension exercises left for the reader, many histories, many perspectives, many authors with partial knowledge pointing beyond themselves to one author of everything, a spectrum of views that when combined give one pure guiding light.
But whatever you think about God's existence, however clear you think revelation is/should be, no matter how high your frustration level is with the mysteries of the universe, it can probably be agreed on that Sean Carroll has conclusively proved that Sean Carroll is not God....
I wonder what kind of review of his book "Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity" a class of kindergartners would give. I'm guessing that opinion would be divided on how clearly he explained the universe!
It appears that it has never occurred to Sean that he might not be the intended audience of God's book...
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness”
If the Bible is true then cleverness is not the primary path to knowing God, love is, and there is hope in the fact that there is a Hidden God to find. If God really delights in seekers then the Bible is exactly the kind of textbook I would expect to be useful; a collection of both the simple and the profound, a combination of stories for kids and puzzles for the wise, problems with worked examples and extension exercises left for the reader, many histories, many perspectives, many authors with partial knowledge pointing beyond themselves to one author of everything, a spectrum of views that when combined give one pure guiding light.
But whatever you think about God's existence, however clear you think revelation is/should be, no matter how high your frustration level is with the mysteries of the universe, it can probably be agreed on that Sean Carroll has conclusively proved that Sean Carroll is not God....
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