(May 8, 2014 at 2:00 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: Now since you said it more likely to be eternal. Think of a start. This is where our minds stop and we simply cannot comprehend.I agree, the concept of eternity is one that we can't grasp. The idea that something was always there and never had a beginning makes no sense to us. But we also believe that everything must come from something, and thus we can't just be comfortable with the idea that one day the universe just began. We want to know the why, the how, the where, etc.
My point is only that if we are considering the possibilities and accepting that something had to always be there, it seems more sensible to think that something relatively simple was always there, and not something unimaginably complex.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
