RE: My views on objective morality
March 13, 2016 at 3:18 pm
(This post was last modified: March 13, 2016 at 3:20 pm by IATIA.)
(March 12, 2016 at 8:20 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Ok big bang happens, no cause. Now what? Everything keeps existing and existing without anything causing and maintaining it's existence? Or do quarks cause and maintain their own existence constantly?
This is not the cosmological argument. It has nothing to do with how things started. I'm not talking beginning, but about constant existence needing constant cause.
I don't believe quarks cause themselves to exist, rather, I believe it's more rational to believe in supernatural existing being causing them to exist.
The big bang had a cause, albeit not necessarily in the sense that we perceive time and causality.
The maintenance of the universe is due to the fact that energy cannot be destroyed. The energy is always there, changing. Watch a bouncing ball. Eventually it will stop bouncing because the energy was transferred via heat and motion. If you bounce it on a suspended flat steel plate, the plate will start vibrating as the energy from the ball is transferred to the plate. The plate will stop vibrating as the energy is transferred to the air as sound. Some energy from both scenarios will be transferred as heat which is then transferred to something else. This will go on forever as the different forms of energy move and change, but nothing is ever lost.
Effectively, the universe is one giant perpetual motion machine. That is what keeps the universe in motion. We even have equations that describe every aspect of this energy transfer.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
