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Problem dealing with death as an atheist
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RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist
(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: i believe in god and i have to think about going to hell, which is far worse than what you have to think about.

Too bad that you live in fear of something that mostly likely doesn't exist.


(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: Think about it, your brain couldve been a t-rex's rectum 2 million years ago...and it might be part of a ferrari in another 5,000 years.

Yes. But isn't that absolutely fucking awesome? See how scientific reality is far more amazing than religious fairy tales?


(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: If you're an athiest then 'life', intelligence' is within atoms, and it must be in every atom, since the atoms joined together to form molecules, which formed together to make micro organisms, which formed together to make your sorry ass. (joke)

No, life is a collective behaviour of many atoms. It's nonsense to say that there's 1 part in 10^27 of a life in each atom of your body since there are ~10^27 atoms in your body.


(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: If you're an intelligent man...i hope you are.....then science/maths wil tell you that if the expansion rate of the universe after the big bang varied by 0.00000000000000000001%, then stars could never have formed. (ask stephen hawkings about it - his calculation)

That's not true, since we don't even know the expansion rate of the early universe to that degree of accuracy. I challenge you to show me where Professor Hawkings makes such a claim.



(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: The hundreds of thousands of DIFFRENT types of micro organism in your body could not exist solo, their can only co-exist, they dnt communicate to each other out of random chemical reactions.

Again not true. Many species of gut flora can be cultivated in a petri dish in isolation from other species.


(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: Any physicist will tell you there is 'ORDER' in the universe, nothing is random, and it defys the laws of physics. Dark matter and dark energy dnt exist, do some research, their only 'ideas' made up to explain the unexplainable - why do the stars on the outer edge of a galaxy orbit at the same speed as the ones inside? completely destroying the laws of gravity, therefore to compensate that force, we have 'dark energy', and for the energy to be strong enough to have the affect it does have, then 'dark matter' must make up 99.99% of the universe.

Yes there is order, but it's ever-decreasing, there is no conservation of entropy.
Nothing is random? Try telling that to every single quantum mechanics-based experiment. Somehow I don't think they'll comply with the way you want the universe to work.

The evidence suggests that dark matter and dark energy exist, we just don't know what they are.
The two are not related in the way you think they are. Dark matter appears to be some form of non-radiating matter, since the mass you get from looking at the total luminosity of a galaxy doesn't seem to match with the amount you need for the observed rotation speeds.
Dark energy is just the accelerated expansion of the universe.



(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: And even if this energy does exist, it cant be consistent in every part of the universe, it must be weaker or stronger in diffrent places, but no, its the same everywhere, whatever size the galaxy is it has enough of an impact to have the EXACT same RELATIVE affect, keeping order in the galaxy and preventing the stars crashing into each other.

Stars don't crash into one another because of angular momentum conservation. You can demonstrate that with classical non-relativistic mechanics, no fancy physics required there.


(April 19, 2011 at 9:46 am)alemcodon Wrote: AND as the galaxy moves through space, does the dark energy follow it? should then it not move into a zone of weaker energy where it could prevent the speeding up of outer stars?

There's no reason to suggest that dark energy is localised, especially as we have no clue as to what it is!

Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
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Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Cynical8 - March 4, 2011 at 9:41 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by theVOID - March 4, 2011 at 11:43 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by theVOID - March 5, 2011 at 11:56 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Ateo - March 6, 2011 at 3:13 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Thor - March 7, 2011 at 12:55 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Thor - March 7, 2011 at 6:23 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Shell B - March 7, 2011 at 11:43 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Jax - March 12, 2011 at 6:05 am
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Cinjin - April 12, 2011 at 11:35 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - March 10, 2011 at 1:49 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by jason56 - March 15, 2011 at 8:38 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 9, 2011 at 11:50 am
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 11, 2011 at 3:25 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 17, 2011 at 8:36 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 19, 2011 at 6:55 am
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 17, 2011 at 6:02 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Carnavon - April 19, 2011 at 10:09 am
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 25, 2011 at 5:17 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Skipper - April 11, 2011 at 4:43 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 11, 2011 at 5:20 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 11, 2011 at 6:08 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Thor - April 14, 2011 at 12:52 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by bozo - April 14, 2011 at 3:12 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 11, 2011 at 5:35 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Cinjin - April 11, 2011 at 4:01 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 12, 2011 at 1:41 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 17, 2011 at 5:01 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by bozo - April 13, 2011 at 5:09 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Frosty - April 14, 2011 at 9:52 am
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by JohnDG - April 17, 2011 at 6:15 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by lilphil1989 - April 19, 2011 at 12:53 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Cinjin - April 20, 2011 at 1:52 am
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by Zenith - April 25, 2011 at 6:47 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by ilikeMe - April 21, 2011 at 1:16 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by BethK - June 10, 2011 at 10:51 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by bozo - May 12, 2011 at 7:46 pm
RE: Problem dealing with death as an atheist - by BethK - June 10, 2011 at 11:58 pm

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