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Quoted: I am astonished that people believe this. The Big Bang is one of the dumbest theories ever. View Quote Well if this planet and all it’s inhabitants is the best that God can do…. He needs to find another fucking hobby. |
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Not "random" but yes I do think that the atoms here on earth came from exploding stars in ages past.
When I better theory comes along, I may adopt that. For me to believe in a magical being I would need to see it with my own eyes. |
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God is real, no question in my mind.
but i've always been fascinated with physics, particularly spacetime and astro flavors. the mind melting part is what happened before the big bang. now, granted, the concept of "before..." implies time, which is relative. nevertheless, it seems likely to me that a prior universe like ours cooled and collapsed into the thing that went bang to expand and create ours. makes one wonder how many universes there have been. almost like we're in a simulation that keeps getting rebooted |
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Quoted: How many people pray for something similar and it never happens? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Not me, I know where this all came from, its in Old Testament, Genesis. My 16 year old dog appeared to be on his last few weeks, his front leg wasn't working for him. I asked Jesus to help him, next day we woke up and he is walking as normal. Jesus did that. When judgement day comes I have many things to be ashamed of in my life, but I believe God sent his only begotten Son 'Jesus Christ' to die for my sins and I will spend eternity in Heaven with my Heavenly Father How many people pray for something similar and it never happens? Pray in one hand and shit in the other. I can guarantee which one will fill up first. I found out at a young age how "religion" worked. I wanted a bike real bad. I prayed and prayed. I did my chores. I gave to the collection basket at church. I prayed some more, and still no bike. So I went and stole a bike, and prayed for forgiveness. |
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Quoted: God is real, no question in my mind. but i've always been fascinated with physics, particularly spacetime and astro flavors. the mind melting part is what happened before the big bang. now, granted, the concept of "before..." implies time, which is relative. nevertheless, it seems likely to me that a prior universe like ours cooled and collapsed into the thing that went bang to expand and create ours. makes one wonder how many universes there have been. almost like we're in a simulation that keeps getting rebooted View Quote THIS. I KNOW there is a God but at times I feel like we are part of his video game. Too many things that aren't EXACTLY like they once were, dejavu, etc.... |
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The Flying Spaghetti Monster. End of discussion.
Pastafarians know this. |
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Well Mrs iggy1337 is the best bang since the big one.
Also the Big Bang could not technically be an explosion. |
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what are the mathematical possibilities that an explosion happened and everything with all it's complexity and beauty fell into place
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The universe is a pretty big place. There’s room for all kinds of possibilities there.
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Quoted: I am astonished that people believe this. The Big Bang is one of the dumbest theories ever. View Quote the Bible says who, not how. |
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People can’t believe it because they have an impossible time understanding how long 6 billion years is and what can happen in that amount of time.
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Quoted: what are the mathematical possibilities that an explosion happened and everything with all it's complexity and beauty fell into place View Quote The earth has had billions of years to get to this point. Most people cannot understand something of that magnitude, and even if they can, it's not as though any one person has any experience at all with anything remotely approaching that time frame. In that time, a mind such as your own likewise evolved after billions of generations of organisms to subjectively regard things as "beautiful" or not. IOW, the universe isn't a collective function of what you might consider beautiful or complex. It is a function of time and physics and chemistry that gave rise to the sentience enabling you to do so. ETA: Note that the above and a belief in God are not mutually exclusive. But it does serve to demonstrate that if the authors of the Bible were truly divinely inspired, then they wrote it within the constraints of their own knowledge and experience, not as modern astronomers or cosmologists learned in the ways of astrophysics and quantum mechanics. |
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Quoted: Why are you astonished? It allows people to ignore morals that go beyond animalistic urges. If there is no intelligent design, then it’s truly “survival of the fittest” and you should do whatever it takes to gain power/resources. View Quote So religion was invented as a hedge against people fighting for power? By the powerful? Sounds just like government. |
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Quoted: I am astonished that people believe this. The Big Bang is one of the dumbest theories ever. View Quote Lets hear your dumb theory |
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If there is intelligent life somewhere else in the universe, I wonder if they believe in the same god. What if they don't?
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Do you really believe that such a simplified version of the singularity is a reasonable explanation of the event?
But very simply, yes. A natural explanation that is consistent with reality (to our best understanding) is a better explanation than, magic did it. |
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I wonder how gorillas think life started?
We are just a few steps beyond them. A few years ago I googled the smartest people on earth, then I googled what religion they are. It was insightful. I'm ok without knowing and if a god is upset with that, I wouldn't worship him anyway. |
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Quoted: Yup. That's the cool thing about science, it allows questions be asked and tested. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: It is the best model that we have to explain things currently, since everything outside of our galaxy is moving away from us faster than the speed of light. What led up to it, and what started the expansion is anyone's guess. Yup. That's the cool thing about science, it allows questions be asked and tested. You spend all that time proving something, what are you going to do with that information? Useless exploration. |
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Quoted: cite? there may be other theories, but nothing has been proven or disproven. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: It was disproved a couple years ago, cite? there may be other theories, but nothing has been proven or disproven. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. |
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I believe in God.
His word is true. I have staked my eternal future on it. |
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I have a rather devout friend who often says, "The God of my understanding is beyond my understanding."
If there is a… "watchmaker"… comprehension of his/her/its true nature would probably be beyond anything we’re capable of. It certainly isn’t going to be a dude with white hair and a beard, floating on a cloud. Who knows, whatever it is might not even be "divine," at least by its standards. Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic. |
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The bang obviously did not happen because there was no sound or light for at least 300,000 years after.
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Quoted: If this is important to you look it up yourself to disprove me. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It was disproved a couple years ago, cite? there may be other theories, but nothing has been proven or disproven. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. So you don’t have a source. Got it. |
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I’m leaning more and more to understanding that this is a simulation, and created by Sid from Toy Story on a boring Saturday afternoon after getting his ass beat for not doing his chores.
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Quoted: If this is important to you look it up yourself to disprove me. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. View Quote The big bang was not dis-proven a couple of years ago so we can't look it up. With a cite we might be able to satisfy our curiosity as to what the hell you think you're talking about. |
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A Believer dares others to challenge his faith and then gets all butthurt when people take him up on the offer.
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Quoted: I am astonished that people believe this. The Big Bang is one of the dumbest theories ever. View Quote To put it in terms easily understood, that Big Bang is a place holder until we figure out what happened. |
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Quoted: The big bang was not dis-proven a couple of years ago so we can't look it up. With a cite we might be able to satisfy our curiosity as to what the hell you think you're talking about. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If this is important to you look it up yourself to disprove me. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. The big bang was not dis-proven a couple of years ago so we can't look it up. With a cite we might be able to satisfy our curiosity as to what the hell you think you're talking about. He's probably talking about that study involving bohmian trajectories or whateverthefuck that came out a few years ago and all the science sites breathlessly screeched BIG BANG THEORY DISPROVEN! like it was a new Trump faux pas or something. |
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Quoted: If this is important to you look it up yourself to disprove me. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: It was disproved a couple years ago, cite? there may be other theories, but nothing has been proven or disproven. If you don't bother, then I know it is not really important to you. "Do your own research" usually translates to "I have no credible reference to give you". |
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like it or not has nothing to do that is the best explanation we currently have.
what exactly do you think happened? all of science is waiting to hear something more plausible. with the little caveat of you know, actual evidence. |
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May go down in smoke like geocentric theory. More likely, no one will ever know for sure.
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