RE: Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?
October 12, 2014 at 7:24 pm
(This post was last modified: October 12, 2014 at 7:24 pm by Chas.)
(October 12, 2014 at 4:06 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Are you saying that the big bang and the singularity (the single point from which the universe emerged) are two different things Chas? Please explain.
What? No. How did you get that? I was quoting your apparently contradictory statements.
(And there wasn't necessarily a singularity; Hawking no longer believes there was, for instance.)
The state of the universe at the start was at maximum entropy and that means there was no information.
And that means that all information that exists emerged from chaos.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.