Assertion 7.6: Electrons are materially inconceivable, but physicists accept them as real entities; so what is to keep one from likewise accepting the reality of an inconceivable Creator?
Analysis:
Although Heisenberg's uncertainty principle makes electrons "materially inconceivable" (although only under the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, not under such alternatives as Bohm's theory), electrons nevertheless participate in a wider theoretical framework in such a way that exact predictions can be drawn from each of their properties. A creator, in contrast, can behave as arbitrarily as one wants, especially when one's theology allows the creator to behave in mysterious ways, so in general no rigorous predictions can be drawn from the idea that there is a creator, rendering it unfalsifiable. Material conceivability or inconceivability, in short, is all but irrelevant to the question of whether or not an entity can be admitted into a scientific theory.
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