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Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
Oh, good Grud. This is still going?

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
(June 16, 2015 at 10:44 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: What would you call something that was the cause of everything?

The problem is that calling it "God" goes far beyond simply choosing a convenient label. It also carries the unspoken agenda of shoe-horning everything that comes with the name "God" into the equation without a shot being fired and with exactly zero justification for it. That opens up, completely unnecessarily, a can of worms so monstrous they could eat the ones from Dune.
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.'
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
(June 16, 2015 at 10:44 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: What would you call something that was the cause of everything?

I would call it "the cause of everything", but I don't think that it is a sensible concept.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
No, we don't know that "something" caused everything. That is applying everyday cause and effect thinking to an increasingly distorted and incredibly weird scenario as we try and model what happened around the plank time. We simply don't know. Just making up answers doesn't aid understanding.

Even if there was a cause, then I'd call it a cause. For all we know, it's a computer programmer making this reality as a simulation, or the point at which our reality broke off from another one and grew on its own.

Calling it "God" straight away suggests a load of extra features, not least of which is sentience. I understand the need to give everything a personality and link it to us, but there is no grounds to do so, even if there is such a cause. If "God" just means "cause", then why use a different word? Trying to slip in someone personal favourite specific God maybe Wink
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
(June 16, 2015 at 9:15 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: We have scanned other galaxies with know proof of real live as we know it.

You seem to have some severe misconceptions regarding our ability to "scan" space for life. They can't even do that in Star Trek to the extent you imagine.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
The most a theistic/deistic labelling can say with any safety is "the Universe was created by something that creates Universes", which adds precisely nothing to the discussion. Calling it "God" necessitates a deus ex machina skyhook of George Lucas proportions.
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.'
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
Now write a load of garbled clever sounding shit around that Stimbo, and you have a WLC paper!
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
I wonder if there's a WLC quote generator somewhere, like the Deepak Chopra one? Or if anybody could code one?
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.'
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
Maybe the term "created" shouldn't even be the term used in this case.
Nothing created the universe because it wasn't created.
It just morphed ...(from a toaster maybe?)

Abiogenesis on a universal scale! yep ...it started out of nothing. (heavily compressed mind you ...
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Know God, Know fear.
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
It also hinges on the subtle but crucial matter of how we are defining 'Universe'. Do we mean the set of everything between the Big Bang and whatever is its ultimate fate, or the set of everything that will ever exist (which by definition must include the first set)?
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.'
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