Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate - By Scott Alexander

Scott Alexander explains why the revived online religion debate leaves him cold: not because he’s exhausted every argument for and against God, but because theism strikes him as the kind of “powerful hidden entity” explanation we normally penalise for overfitting. From alien-assisted Napoleon to divine simplicity and dualism, he tries to unpack the intuition behind his atheism, and why he’d rather not return to the theology mines.* 00:00 - Introduction* 00:07 - One* 10:04 - Two* 15:30 - Threehttps://open.substack.com/pub/astralcodexten/p/why-im-staying-out-of-the-substack?r=67y1h&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web Get full access to Askwho Casts AI at askwhocastsai.substack.com/subscribe