RE: Op/ED g/God, broken concept
August 30, 2012 at 12:13 am
(This post was last modified: August 30, 2012 at 12:16 am by Lion IRC.)
Sorry Brian37
You lost me with this unsubstantiated, faith-based "absolute truth" claim.
Science is doing a bang-up job of expanding the knowledge horizon further and further away.
The God of the Gaps has even bigger gaps to fill than ever before in human history.
Cave man thought his unexplored ''universe'' was perhaps 100 miles wide. Numinous. Mysterious. Unseen by telescopes/microscopes. But his ignorant 100 mile wide assumption was at least plausible to him.
The 2012 cave man has no idea how big his expanding, no-boundary polyverse/megaverse/multiverse is. Everytime he climbs a new mountain
he sees yet another new horizon which is exponentially further away than the previous.
Panspermia biochemist Nick Lane (in June 23 New Scientist) speculates the monumental galactic distances are so great that we face the same problem aliens would face in us both trying to reach one another - not enough time and resources available before we self-extinguish in our own stupidity...or entropy.
Of course, a Higher Being from another universe, travelling through a worm-hole, using the power of dark energy to manipulate quantum vacuum space/time, might be able to come here.
You lost me with this unsubstantiated, faith-based "absolute truth" claim.
(August 20, 2012 at 5:23 pm)Brian37 Wrote: ...the reality that this is all there is.
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Science is doing a bang-up job of expanding the knowledge horizon further and further away.
The God of the Gaps has even bigger gaps to fill than ever before in human history.
Cave man thought his unexplored ''universe'' was perhaps 100 miles wide. Numinous. Mysterious. Unseen by telescopes/microscopes. But his ignorant 100 mile wide assumption was at least plausible to him.
The 2012 cave man has no idea how big his expanding, no-boundary polyverse/megaverse/multiverse is. Everytime he climbs a new mountain
he sees yet another new horizon which is exponentially further away than the previous.
Panspermia biochemist Nick Lane (in June 23 New Scientist) speculates the monumental galactic distances are so great that we face the same problem aliens would face in us both trying to reach one another - not enough time and resources available before we self-extinguish in our own stupidity...or entropy.
Of course, a Higher Being from another universe, travelling through a worm-hole, using the power of dark energy to manipulate quantum vacuum space/time, might be able to come here.
