Ricky Gervais explaining how he became an Atheist

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Scientists just have faith that Dark Energy exists.  Just how they had faith that certain elements on the periodic table existed before anyone was able to recreate them in a labratory setting.

I know this was a while ago, but faith is not the right word here.  The right word would probably be theory.  They have a theory that dark energy exists.

There isn't really a difference.  I mean... what makes Dark Energy anymore credible then "God is pushing the universe" or "Dark space wind is pushing everything created by a white hole."

Yes, there is a difference between those words.  It may seem subtle, but there is a difference.

You also seem to be getting hung up on the words "dark energy".  We know there is something out there causing these unexplained observable effects.  We happen to call it dark energy.  The name doesn't matter.

No we don't.  We don't know something is out there.  We think something it out there because it fits in to our viewpoint.

There is no difference between Dark Energy and God at this point... or invisible Spagetti monsters pushing things for that matter.

 

That makes no sense.

Yes it does.

We know the universe is expanding faster then normal.   We expect the opposite to be true.

We have no clue what is doing it or why it is happening.  So we dub what is doing it "Dark Energy".

And that's it.  That's all we know about Dark Energy.  Apparently it is causing the universe to expand fast and.... nothing.

Someone could of just as eaisly said "God" is doing it... or Tony Danza for that matter.

Or tiny particles called "Dark Pixe Dust" that use space folding to make everything move faster due to "pixie waves".

For that matter, we don't know what makes gravity work.  You might as well call the God, too.

Yes we do.

GF = (G*m1*m2)/ (D^2)

Mass makes gravity work.