(March 4, 2014 at 12:25 am)Stimbo Wrote:(March 4, 2014 at 1:52 am)AT7iLA Wrote: If you were to see a smashed goldfish bowl on the floor, a wet carpet and a contented looking cat, you don't need to have been present at the event to work out what happened.HAHA... This reminds me of a story involving my sister. I ate all her chips ahoy cookies, then I put the plastic container that it came in by the dog's cage and when she saw that, she actually believed that the dog ate it. She wasn't there to observe the fact that it was actually I who ate the cookies. I'm mean.
That's where investigation and testing comes in. It's the classic Columbo plot (I'm on a Peter Falk kick atm): murderer sets up an alibi and shoots his business partner, then arranges the scene of the crime to make it look like a burglar did it. At face value, the police and everybody else sees exactly what the killer wants them to see. It's only when Columbo pieces the clues together, gathering evidence and picking holes in the 'official' story to determine what really happened, that he can finally make the arrest.
(March 4, 2014 at 1:52 am)AT7iLA Wrote: I guess what my friend was trying to say is that the big bang is based on belief just like creation is based on belief because there wasn't anybody around to actually see it happen. He doesn't believe that "a dot can just come into existence without something living already existing to cause the dot to exist."
And do you still consider this an accurate representation of Big Bang Cosmology?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
