RE: Why "mysterious ways" don't matter.
July 23, 2014 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2014 at 11:30 am by Jenny A.)
(July 23, 2014 at 10:53 am)Heywood Wrote:(July 23, 2014 at 10:31 am)Baqal Wrote: @Heywood
-We don't really know what is at the center of a black hole so we say its a singularity.
Scientists consider that to be true because that is a statement that has not been proven wrong yet. Show them evidence that there isn't a singularity in the center of a black hole and you will convince them to change their minds.
If you ask a scientist what a singularity is they will tell you its a mathematical phenomenon based upon the absentia of a physical theorem for quantum gravitation, and not a real physical actuality. In other words...they will tell you they don't really know what it is. "Singularity" is just a phrase/word for ignorance.....just like "God works in mysterious ways".
Not quite. Singularity refers to not knowing because of lack of evidence. "God works in mysterious ways" generally refers not just to things we can't explain, but to things that absolutely contradict what is otherwise said about god, i.e. god is all loving and all powerful, but children are dying due to hurricanes. It's as if we went on believing in gravity despite things falling up randomly about a third of the time as "gravity's mysterious ways," rather than realizing that there was something fundamentally wrong with the theory of gravity.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.