How is religion any different than creative speculation???

[tkmorris]

53. You cannot be serious

I will acknowledge that really understanding why magnets act as they do and what makes some materials reactive to magnets whereas others are not is difficult for those who lack at least a rudimentary grasp of physics but to suggest that it is a "mystery" that defies scientific explanation is ridiculous.

I run into this sort of thing again and again. There are people who are incapable, for some reason or another, of grasping the scientific explanation for some phenomenon or another and this makes them conclude that it is unknowable, a mystery, indistinguishable from magic. It's nonsense. Even in cases where a thing is not yet fully understood, suggesting that it CANNOT be is absurd. Again and again this has been proven to be incorrect, but still they persist. Did scholars of the 4th century understand gravity? Orbital mechanics? Of course not. That didn't mean those things were impervious to scientific understanding; it simply meant we hadn't gotten there yet.

"God" is a copout for the intellectually lazy and the wishful thinkers.