The universe is expanding because everything is attached to those "strings" I keep hearing about and those strings are pulling everything apart. Yeah, that's the ticket. See how easy that was?
are those like the strings that are pulled in the office?
Chipper,
I don't think scientists can figure out the Universe because it is supposed to be a mystery. It is the heavens, which were created by God.
Or at least that's how the fairy tale goes. There is no proof.
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faith is the other side of proof. Belief doesn't require proof.
And I think, as the world gets more and more difficult, we're going to see more and more people use the excuse of "there is no proof" as a reason not to believe in God.
Faith is to proof as the square root of negative one is to the natural numbers. Complex numbers can provide a framework to manipulate mathematical representations of physical phenomenon through an imaginary component.
However an abstract tool does not make the the imaginary component real. The maths of String Theory appear to match the observations but do not constitute a proof. The theory has been repeatedly modified to match the reality because in Science observation trumps theory.
Here the analogy with faith collapses. When confronted with disparity between theory and reality, faith upholds the abstraction and denies the observation.
There is no need for an "excuse" not to believe in God. There is no "reason" to believe in God. The God hypothesis does not endure in the face of reason.
You are being deliberately difficult there Paul.
The point is that both faith and imaginary numbers are construct that can be used to manipulate our understanding of real phenomenon but in no way does this make either of them real in themselves.
The point is that both faith and imaginary numbers are construct that can be used to manipulate our understanding of real phenomenon but in no way does this make either of them real in themselves.
There is no need for an "excuse" not to believe in God. There is no "reason" to believe in God. The God hypothesis does not endure in the face of reason.
that's one LONGGGGGGGGG rope. I wonder what's keeping it taught.![]()
give a universe (or a deity) enough rope...
And there is no way to convince them otherwise. You can educate, you can demonstrate, you can question, but an adult mind that has truly accepted that there is an all-powerful god that can see/hear/know everything that they do and will smite them/send them to hell/whatever other terrifying thing if they don't comply is not ready to leave religion behind. They need it, it is their crutch.
The atheist does not need "the crutch" (virtually an anagram of "the church"). We have real legs. The faithful tore off their legs in order that the crutches become an integral part of their lives.
However do not mistake that an atheist necessarily believes in the absence of spirit and automatically accept the notion that all of reality is mechanistic in the prevailing scientific tradition.
Spirituality is not the foundation of existence but the next step from consciousness.
The Creator hypothesis is superfluous and unsupported by observation. The faithful have it all backwards, got stuck on dogma and are thus incapable of enlightenment. This is what makes them so dangerous.