# What is the scientific perspective on the omnimax god?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [September 4, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-scientific-perspective-on-the-omnimax-god/552630 "2010-09-04T22:35:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-scientific-perspective-on-the-omnimax-god/552630/101 "2010-09-10T04:57:26Z")

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> [@Triskadecamus](#):
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> I do not offer scientific proof of my love to my child when my child is in fear, or pain. Yet it may be that I love my child. The entire universe is not encompassed by scientific understanding.

The entire factual universe is. Science could certainly study gods if they actually existed and ever actually did anything. And what makes you think that love is outside of the purview of science? It’s just an emotion, a brain state. Not some super-special ultra-unknowable mystic thing.

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**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-scientific-perspective-on-the-omnimax-god/552630/102 "2010-09-10T05:02:51Z")

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> [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> And what makes you think that love is outside of the purview of science? It’s just an emotion, a brain state. Not some super-special ultra-unknowable mystic thing.

So, having noted the chemical and electrical brain state, you now know all there ever could be to know of love.

I begin to understand.

Tris

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-scientific-perspective-on-the-omnimax-god/552630/103 "2010-09-10T05:10:21Z")

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> [@Triskadecamus](#):
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> > [@Der\_Trihs](#):
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> > And what makes you think that love is outside of the purview of science? It’s just an emotion, a brain state. Not some super-special ultra-unknowable mystic thing.
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> So, having noted the chemical and electrical brain state, you now know all there ever could be to know of love.

If I knew and understand it well enough, yes. Just as if I could somehow know and understand your entire brain state well enough I’d know and understand you completely, better than you know yourself. We can’t do either yet, but that doesn’t make such things unknowable by science or mystical.

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