RE: Why did God create the universe?
June 22, 2012 at 6:35 pm
(This post was last modified: June 22, 2012 at 6:52 pm by Hoc est Corpus.)
(June 21, 2012 at 12:52 am)cato123 Wrote: Do you have any idea how long ago the '4th vector' was added? Do you know what a vector is or are you just now spouting a word you read in Wikipedia?First of all I have no idea why you seem to be so upset when we are just having a discussion. Second, I don't claim to be a physicist, and I added those terms so people could look them up and understand the basic concepts of what we were talking about. Third, your whole 4th dimension point being discovered is a mute one anyhow. It was simply a metaphor and the principal still applies by just replacing “4th” with 5th, 6th or 7th dimension. If you would like to understand more clearly what I meant this is the concept I was referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
You have absolutely no idea who Euclid was/is....do you? Minkowski spacetime....ha ha ha. Don't you recall from secondary school that you could not use an encyclopedia as a direct reference for papers? Encyclopedias are very useful for general knowledge and a means for learning where to find definitive sources, but vomiting Euclid and Minkowski without a mention of Newton and Einstein betrays you.
(June 21, 2012 at 1:42 pm)Thor Wrote:Quote:I never said I could "prove" God created it. Only that it seems likely based on the nature of the universe.
It seems "likely"? Based on "the nature of the universe"? The nature of the universe is to be incredibly chaotic and dangerous. Black holes, exploding stars, comets and asteroids flying around, meteors crashing into the planet.... This is the place a loving deity would put his most precious creation?
And yet our planet sustains life, and most likely will for the next million years or so. As far as I know we are in no immediate threat of black holes, exploding stars, comets, or asteroids. Maybe God created all that stuff for us to discover, and enable us to learn more about "him" by studying his creation.
The Bible was meant to be read in context, as a whole narrative, not in fragments.