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re: Do you accept the notion of the Big Bang as the origin of our universe?
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:10 pm to DavidTheGnome
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:10 pm to DavidTheGnome
It is the most likely explanation we have based on the evidence
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Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:10 pm to iAmBatman
I guess if you define "religious people" so narrowly as to exclude brilliant scientists, physicists, philosophers, etc who understand spheres of inquiry--again a straw man tactic--then you have a point. A weak and meaningless one.
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:11 pm to DavidTheGnome
Matrix/hologram universe > big bang
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:11 pm to McLemore
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A weak and meaningless one.
Just like your book.
ETA: what’s your theory for the origin of the universe?
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 10:12 pm
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:14 pm to DavidTheGnome
Bang bang
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 10:15 pm
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:16 pm to DavidTheGnome
All the great theologians like Hester Carries and myself have concluded that yes, the big bang happened and yes it was caused by God. But no, he didn't do it on purpose.
Despite his best intentions, God is a bit of an idiot, as far as deities go. So we must praise him and love him, but most of all we must be patient with him. He's still figuring a lot of things out.
Evidence:
Checkmate, everyone else.
Despite his best intentions, God is a bit of an idiot, as far as deities go. So we must praise him and love him, but most of all we must be patient with him. He's still figuring a lot of things out.
Evidence:
Checkmate, everyone else.
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:17 pm to LucasP
Upvote for you. I personally would have chosen the duck billed platypus but I see why you did what you did.
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 10:19 pm
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:19 pm to DavidTheGnome
Yes.
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:22 pm to iAmBatman
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duck billed platypus
Excellent suggestion but this is a religion founded by my colleague and myself some time ago. I'm afraid the kiwi is quite the cornerstone and non-negotiable. A platypus could be quite the compelling supportive argument though. I'll bring it up at the next council meeting.
In the meantime, could I interest you in some free literature?
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:22 pm to iAmBatman
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Just like your book.
Which book? I haven't finished writing any of them yet unless you include my children's books, and yes those fit that bill, intentionally.
I'm currently reading one of my best friend's latest mystery novel. You should check it out. Written In Blood, by Layton Greene.
I am also wading through Chuck Taylor's A Secular Age. He's one of those guys who understands how to question instead of clinging to dogma out of fear. Next up is Alvin Plantinga.
I'll let you know how that goes.
I find this stuff absolutely fascinating. And it's particularly interesting to me in the context of truth and meaning--Qoheleth (and Sartre) say: if your origin is meaningless and your destiny is meaningless then admit your life is too. Expand, contract, die.
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 10:23 pm
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:25 pm to McLemore
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if your origin is meaningless and your destiny is meaningless then admit your life is too. Expand, contract, die.
All of our lives are meaningless. What’s your point?
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:27 pm to iAmBatman
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ETA: what’s your theory for the origin of the universe?
Is there but one universe? My theory is, I like reading the theories of people who are a lot smarter than I am, and they are fascinating from a scientific perspective. I haven't quite developed my own unique one yet, sorry.
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 10:28 pm
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:28 pm to iAmBatman
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All of our lives are meaningless. What’s your point?
Why do you care?
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:28 pm to DavidTheGnome
Human understanding of the universe is on par with an ant’s understanding of calculus. Man is such a pitifully arrogant creature to believe he knows jack shite.
Knuckle draggers at best, yet think we are so smart......
Knuckle draggers at best, yet think we are so smart......
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:28 pm to DavidTheGnome
Big Bang seems like bullshite
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:30 pm to CharlesLSU
I wouldn’t say that, weve made tremendous progress - especially over the past hundred years.
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:30 pm to McLemore
Good answer. Way to not show any commitment to anything you believe 
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:30 pm to DavidTheGnome
No, because what was there before? Nothing?
Posted on 1/3/18 at 10:32 pm to DavidTheGnome
In the beginning was nothing and nothing exploded.
You forgot to mention that it was infinitely hot.
How can something that is infinitely dense be infinitely hot? Stuff must be moving to be hot, but it can't move if it is infinitely dense.
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That the universe from everything we can tell originated from an infinitely dense singularity and experienced an extrodinarily rapid inflation resulting in the universe we see today?
You forgot to mention that it was infinitely hot.
How can something that is infinitely dense be infinitely hot? Stuff must be moving to be hot, but it can't move if it is infinitely dense.
This post was edited on 1/3/18 at 10:34 pm
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