RE: 'Seeking' God
October 31, 2011 at 12:38 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2011 at 12:39 am by lucent.)
(October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm)IATIA Wrote: Just because some schooled bible thumpers cannot find an answer does not mean that 'goddidit'. What that means is these folks are weak in their field, which explains why they are not headliners.
Most of them were in fact at the top of their fields and had extremely noteworthy careers:
Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington, OM, FRS[1] (28 December 1882 – 22 November 1944) was a British astrophysicist of the early 20th century. He was also a philosopher of science and a popularizer of science. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, or the radiation generated by accretion onto a compact object, is named in his honour.
He is famous for his work regarding the Theory of Relativity. Eddington wrote a number of articles which announced and explained Einstein's theory of general relativity to the English-speaking world. World War I severed many lines of scientific communication and new developments in German science were not well known in England. He also conducted an expedition to observe the Solar eclipse of 29 May 1919 that provided one of the earliest confirmations of relativity, and he became known for his popular expositions and interpretations of the theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Eddington
George Francis Rayner Ellis, FRS, (born August 11, 1939) is the Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He co-authored The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time with University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking, published in 1973, and is considered one of the world's leading theorists in cosmology.[1] He is an active Quaker and in 2004 he won the Templeton Prize.[2] From 1989 to 1992 he served as President of the International Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. He is a past President of the International Society for Science and Religion. He is an A-rated researcher with the NRF.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fran...yner_Ellis
Allan Rex Sandage (June 18, 1926 - November 13, 2010)[1][2][3][4] was an American astronomer. He was Staff Member Emeritus with the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California.[5] He is best known for determining the first reasonably accurate value for the Hubble constant and the age of the universe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Sandage
Paul Charles William Davies, AM (born 22 April 1946) is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, currently a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Cambridge, University of London, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, University of Adelaide and Macquarie University. His research interests are in the fields of cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology. He has proposed that a one-way trip to Mars could be a viable option.
In 2005, he took up the chair of the SETI: Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics. He is also an adviser to the Microbes Mind Forum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Davies
I stopped here because I got tired of copying and pasting. Care to venture a new theory?
(October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm)IATIA Wrote: Evolution is true whether you or any other bible thumper believe it or not.
God exists whether you atheists believe it or not.
(October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm)IATIA Wrote: Lack of evidence is proof of nothing.
I agree, and I'll remind you of this next time you say that evidence is lacking for God.
(October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm)IATIA Wrote: Either there are millions upon millions of fossils which would take thousands if not millions of years to categorize or there are very few fossils, which makes finding complete transitions randomly difficult at best.
You'd think they would have found at least one with a watertight case by now, right? Archaeopteryx was the best one you had and it got debunked last year:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...-bird.html
(October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm)IATIA Wrote: Not every animal that has ever lived has left fossil evidence, in fact most have left no evidence whatsoever of their existence.
Yeah, they must be all the ones that agree with your theory.
(October 30, 2011 at 11:22 pm)IATIA Wrote: There is no god. It cannot exist. There is no possible set of circumstances that can even remotely accommodate an infinitely regressive entity or an infinitely powerful being.
God is not infinitely anything. He is the beginning and the end. God is all powerful, not infinitely powerful. How do you, as a finite, limited, biased human being, judge what God can or can't be?