Comment: Re:"Offensive" (Score 1) 493
If you can show that everything that has ever happened inside the aquarium would have happened exactly like it did without anyone from the outside interfering, you have proved that there was no outside effect.
(Disclaimer: Not actually seeking to argue against your broader thesis, just noticed a possible hole in this piece.)
To some extent, yes, we can measure everything. But we have to be looking.
If a hypothetical God were to influence the world in manners both subtle and far-reaching (because the world is a chaotic system, and tiny inputs can, in the right places and times, have huge effects), how would we be able to prove that it was, in fact, the doing of God?
Archduke Franz Ferdinand's car takes a wrong turn down a side street, and World War I breaks out. The Vienna Academy of Fine Arts accepts a young aspiring artist named Adolf Hitler, and he never goes on to start the Third Reich.
Unless we can be observing every event—which means, every aspect of every cubic millimeter of the earth, inside and out, including things we currently have no good way to measure, and to a wide radius around it, for events that are initiated in space—we cannot possibly carry out such proof that no outside force acts upon events here.
Dan Aris