Gerald R. Baron
1 min readOct 1, 2021

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Thanks again Reverend, for the discussion. Responding to your point about physicists hypothesize or infer about invisible forces to explain what is observed, or visualized as you say. Dark matter is one thing--and the results in terms of structure of the cosmos through some unknown and so far invisible force is an example. I do think the multiverse is something else. There is no reason to infer that based on what is observed, except for the extreme challenge presented by fine tuning. As chance is the only alternative to design, the multiverse must be inferred. No evidence and no possibliity of gathering the evidence.

But there are a lot of scientists who observe things that are invisible but with clear results. I refer you to Irreducible Mind for a great survey of the 150 year plus study of psi phenomena. Near Death Experiences are getting a much more serious look. I predict you may reject such things out of hand as physicalists do, but to me there is a fairly strong equivalence in hypothesizing dark matter and energy based on observed phenomena and hypothesizing non-material realities based on observed phenomena.

Thanks again for the conversation!

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Gerald R. Baron
Gerald R. Baron

Written by Gerald R. Baron

Dawdling at the intersection of faith, science, philosophy and theology. Author of It Was My Turn, a Vietnam story.

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