spidergoat
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I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying god allows disease as a motive to do more science?If you can prevent a horrible disease from occurring, who says you weren't meant to stop it?
I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying god allows disease as a motive to do more science?If you can prevent a horrible disease from occurring, who says you weren't meant to stop it?
Would you prefer an old guy with a beard who lounges on a cloud? Or maybe something more tangible that should be evident to all?I wondered if you had a view given you have what appears to be a clear notion of God.
No motivated sentience is required nor desired.
I make no such claim.I'm not sure what you mean. Are you saying god allows disease as a motive to do more science?
Yes indeed, a pattern evolved from and formed by a pseudo-intelligent (logical) mathematical function.Yet here you are, conscious being.
Were you ever required to pray for what was given to you? Neither was I. But maybe we should give thanks.All without prayer!
Would you prefer an old guy with a beard who lounges on a cloud? Or maybe something more tangible that should be evident to all?
If I told you that you are sacred, your being, would that be enough honesty to satisfy your questions?What I would prefer is an honest attempt by you to answer honestly and without beating around the bush.
Still with the questions after all my effort to point out how obnoxious I regard such a method.If I told you that you are sacred, your being, would that be enough honesty to satisfy your questions?
I'm pointing at you. If I leave you with one thought, it is that God loves you. Always has and always will.Still with the questions after all my effort to point out how obnoxious I regard such a method.
Who should we thank and why? Nothing is given to you. You have to work for it, just like ants.Were you ever required to pray for what was given to you? Neither was I. But maybe we should give thanks.
I'm pointing at you. If I leave you with one thought, it is that God loves you. Always has and always will.![]()
Don't know how saying thank you implies guilt. If you gave me something it would be appropriate to thank you for the gift.But please note how you introduced guilt unwittingly into the conversation.
And what does this have to do with the Universe being created by a sentient motivated Being? He created the Universe just for you to enjoy your job?Don't know how saying thank you implies guilt. If you gave me something it would be appropriate to thank you for the gift.
Work can also be a gift, more so when it is a job you enjoy.
Moreover, would you enslave another being?And
What about slavery? That's a job too.
You are one among many favorites.Why am I his favorite do you think?
No, because I am sane, unlike some scriptures which espouse slavery in the name of God and written by people who "knew" God and his purpose.Moreover, would you enslave another being?
I expect that he would never have accepted the mainstream view as he seemed like a very intelligent person who would not be convinced by the evidence being offerred to prop up what was seen by him as philosophy rather than science.
He was more aware than we are today that the big bang was presented by a catholic priest after he and his colleagues had discussed the cosmic egg idea for at least twenty years and that they may have become determined to steal yet another Pagan belief for no other teason than humans have believed such in the past so the idea has in effect been tested in the market place.
I find it unfortunate that the best brains have been educated in private schools that behind it all harbour a belief in a God which even if they reject the belief find a need to construct cosmology with room for a God.
The big bang almost appologetically can only tell us about the evolution of the universe but damn it leaves the moment of creation happily open for the God botherers to point and say God did it...and sadly that is the way it is...there is no conflict between science and religion..the Pope gives God seven days for creation and the big bang avoids the question unless you take the inflationary epoc as creation...yes fron zip to everything in less than a zillionth of a zillionth of a zillionth of a second as Neil De Grasse qualifies it...and the folk who reject God are happy with the zillionth of a second science did it creation...
Is that more sad than saying we dont know.. well yes it is but folk need something to believe so in that regard the big bang idea is great even though it is basically a Pagan idea that has been around as long as humans could communicate I expect.
Of course to question the big bang brings the attack that you reject the science and that you question general relativity.
And thats fair enough but GR is geometry employed to support the philosophy and folk then claim as the geometry is perfect so too is the philosophy...not in my view, not in Fred Hoyles ...I think he would have been able to see the geometry was employed to work for the church and to support the latest idea they stole from the Pagans.
Anyways I am happy to admit that I dont know how the universe began and prepared to consider it on the basis that it has always been here. ... I doubt if the universe has a problem as to why it has always been here and certainly not concerned with any reasons humans offer as to why it could not have always existed.
Alex
That still isn't good enough so they now generally describe inflation just before the Big Bang but the physics for that isn't known either therefore the predictions and evidence for the Big Bang all come after that point.
So forget my rambling and answer this... do you know of any observation that tells us that the universe was small dense and hot?