RE: Questions questions questions
April 18, 2012 at 4:03 pm
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2012 at 4:04 pm by Cyberman.)
Hi Wallace, hope you enjoy your stay. Just a couple of points regarding your questions:
This is bordering on a false dichotomy: either it's all down to a god or it's random chance. There's nothing pointlessly random about physics, and if you can't see that, I invite you to step out of a first-floor window and see how random the result is.*
* Meant for illustration only. I do not seriously recommend stepping out of a first-floor window.
(April 18, 2012 at 3:42 pm)WallaceT Wrote: Then we have the big bang theory. The universe explodes into existence from a single point from nothing.First off, nobody other than theists say that the Universe came from nothing. However, even if that is exactly what happened, the fact that you find the idea incomprehensible is irrelevant. Don't mean to sound harsh but you should look up Argument from Ignorance - just because we may not understand a thing does not make that thing wrong. As far as current understanding can determine, the Big Bang is historical fact.
I find both concepts equally incomprehensible.
(April 18, 2012 at 3:42 pm)WallaceT Wrote: There is no direct evidence that god exists but an objective observer cannot rule out the possibility 100%.This is true as far as it goes, but the lack of direct evidence is the key point. Until such evidence becomes available, the rational position is to presume the entity does not exist. Don't fall into the trap of confusing what is possible with what is plausible.
(April 18, 2012 at 3:42 pm)WallaceT Wrote: Perhaps god is the universe? Or perhaps it's all just pointless random physics and chance?
This is bordering on a false dichotomy: either it's all down to a god or it's random chance. There's nothing pointlessly random about physics, and if you can't see that, I invite you to step out of a first-floor window and see how random the result is.*
* Meant for illustration only. I do not seriously recommend stepping out of a first-floor window.
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.'