RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
December 22, 2013 at 6:30 am
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2013 at 6:31 am by Cyberman.)
There's a quote that was doing the rounds a little while back, to the effect of:
"Imagine if all of human knowledge and achievement were to be wiped out tomorrow. Given enough time, it's inevitable that all the major scientific discoveries would eventually be rediscovered. Every god that has ever been worshipped, however, would vanish forever."
In other words, nothing of any religion - the very existence of their gods, their prophets, their mythologies - can be derived from examining the Universe and assessing the evidence. None of it would ever be known outside their 'holy' texts. Which explains why every culture that has ever exploited the very lucrative idea of gods in whatever form have come up with so many completely different and only superficially compatible mythologies that, frankly, it must be a major source of embarrassment to their mouthpieces trying to sell their pet deity as the One True God.
"Imagine if all of human knowledge and achievement were to be wiped out tomorrow. Given enough time, it's inevitable that all the major scientific discoveries would eventually be rediscovered. Every god that has ever been worshipped, however, would vanish forever."
In other words, nothing of any religion - the very existence of their gods, their prophets, their mythologies - can be derived from examining the Universe and assessing the evidence. None of it would ever be known outside their 'holy' texts. Which explains why every culture that has ever exploited the very lucrative idea of gods in whatever form have come up with so many completely different and only superficially compatible mythologies that, frankly, it must be a major source of embarrassment to their mouthpieces trying to sell their pet deity as the One True God.
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.'
