RE: God is real.
June 1, 2012 at 10:57 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2012 at 10:58 pm by Cyberman.)
Now the dust has settled somewhat, I looked at his 'evidence' - and I'm being generous to the point of outright lying - in a little more depth. I ignored all the WLC crap as that's been torn to shreds since he excreted it (horrible image; sorry). I was particularly struck by his claim that "Scientists say that if they universe were one grain of sand bigger or smaller humans would not be here today"; I've never seen this particular line before, so I checked the pdf he so helpfully gave as a source. the distinctive word "sand" occurs in three places in that document:
* once when discussing the fact that "At best our puny brains are capable of comprehending maybe 8 orders-of-magnitude directly (1 mm grain of sand to 100 km scale visible from mountain-tops). Outside this direct experience, we rely on the numbers to convey the relative scales."
* again when talking about the expansion of the Universe, using the "seemingly preposterous extrapolation" that galaxies were much closer at "a time when the whole universe was smaller than a grain of sand."
* and finally in discussing the size of the Universe - "On the whole, if you smeared out all the atoms in the universe uniformly, you would end up with less than one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. That’s sparse! Even in our locally dense galaxy (most of the universe is space between the galaxies), stars are like grains of sand several miles apart!"
Even if dingboy's "God is real", his 'facts' are not.
* once when discussing the fact that "At best our puny brains are capable of comprehending maybe 8 orders-of-magnitude directly (1 mm grain of sand to 100 km scale visible from mountain-tops). Outside this direct experience, we rely on the numbers to convey the relative scales."
* again when talking about the expansion of the Universe, using the "seemingly preposterous extrapolation" that galaxies were much closer at "a time when the whole universe was smaller than a grain of sand."
* and finally in discussing the size of the Universe - "On the whole, if you smeared out all the atoms in the universe uniformly, you would end up with less than one hydrogen atom per cubic meter. That’s sparse! Even in our locally dense galaxy (most of the universe is space between the galaxies), stars are like grains of sand several miles apart!"
Even if dingboy's "God is real", his 'facts' are not.
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.'
