RE: What is "FAITH"
July 15, 2013 at 11:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2013 at 11:06 am by Bad Writer.)
(July 15, 2013 at 10:54 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 15, 2013 at 10:45 am)BadWriterSparty Wrote: There is no way anyone could know that for certain. That's not too unreasonable of me to say that, is it?
Yes
"bats Mr party around the head*
Real answer: no. That's why we say things like 'most probable' and 'consensus of great thinkers /experts on the subject'.
Nothing is written in stone here. No one is coming to fit your new straight jacket over this. We're talking good solid justified theory where 1+1=2. We make some logical observations, like the existence of everything in reality being logical, and then extend that to assume that this has always been the case, and that we can understand that the universe had a logical cause. For example.
Why is your real answer "no" if you then turn around and say "Nothing is written in stone here." That completely validates what I said: "There's no way anyone can know that for certain." I think you wanted to disagree with me on principle, but then your last paragraph agreed with me (or at least it agrees with what I'm trying to convey...perhaps you and I have a small communication break-down going on here).
You're right that those logical observations get us some pretty good approximations of what occurred, occurs, and will occur. Perhaps you know something more than I do about what happened before the Big Bang?