Not exact matches
«And
then there is the size theory... We're a lot smaller
than galaxies and the
universe.
yo the thing is not about believing or not, is the fact that if we don't believe
then we are worthless living garbage who occupy a space in the
universe only to create crap and pollution, in that kind of case we would better be recycled into some industrial material for a better use
than eating and living like cattle, but if there is a god we acquire a divine status and a purpose to continue to exist beyond afterlife or at least the idea of it, which would give life a sense right?
If there was a God who intelligently designed the
universe and life
then why would we have anything bigger
than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?
If there is no God and the
universe is a chance result of some great accident,
then we are nothing more
than bundles of chemicals and nothing matters.
Look at the world /
universe and
then decide if that is true or if you could have made the
universe better
than god did.
If we love God,
then it does not take much for us to say yes because it is so much more fun in living with God
than floating out there in the vast
universe with no love for eternity.
This full view of God lifts up a God who is more
than a Creator who made the world out of nothing, more
than the God of the big - bang theory who began the
universe and
then left it to run on its own -
The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances of things seldom gains more
than a glimpse, at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us,
then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point of contact the unique essence of the
universe.
The body of God,
then, would be nothing less
than all that is — the
universe or
universes and everything they contain of which cosmologists speak.
If I believed in a purposeless
universe, that life nothing but an accident, me and my loved ones are no more valuable
than tape worms,
then I would be drinking constantly.
The question
then is this: Why is one religious approach more or less adequate
than another as a channel for the healing forces which are available in the
universe?
If you took a sheet of paper and filled it with zeros,
then reproduced zeros on sheets of paper lined up across the entire
universe, 15 billion light years across, that number would still be smaller
than 1010 (123).
everything in the
universe evolves, not only life forms but also memes, Religion is a meme so it also change in conformity to its era or time of its conception as faith.Because in pre scientific times thousands of years ago, the scientific method of approach or philosophy has not existed yet, myth or merely story telling is considered facts, The first religion called animism more
than 10,000 years ago believed that spirits or god exists in trees, rivers, mountains, boulders or in any places people at that time considered holy.hundreds of them,
then when the Greeks and Romans came, it was reduced to 12, they called it polytheism, when the Jews arrived, it was further reduced to 1, monotheism.its derivatives, Christianity And Islam and later hundreds of denominations that includes Mormonism and Protestants flourished up to today.So in short this religions evolved in accordance to the scientific knowledge of the age or era they existed.If you graph the growth of knowledge, it shows a sharp increase in the last 500 years, forcing the dominant religions at that time to reinterprete their dogmas, today this traditional religions are becoming obsolete and has to evolve to survive.But first they have to unify against atheism.in the dialectical process of change, Theism in one hand and the opposing force atheism in the other, will resolve into a result or synthesis.The process shall be highlighted in the internet in the near future.
If the expansion rate of
universe were 1 part in 10 to the 55th power less
than what it is,
then the
universe would have already collapsed.
For Hartshorne the answer to this is a qualified no: «If God knows all the
universe,
then God - and - the -
universe contains no more items
than God (as omniscient).
As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the
universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him,
then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more
than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.
If time travel can only be achieved with travel faster
than the speed of light,
then during this faster -
than - the - speed - of - light expansion the growing
Universe was experiencing, couldn't the entire
universe at that time have been going backwards, or possibly forwards, in time itself?
If man is simply trying to exalt himself and is seeking to claim for himself the central spotlight of the
universe,
then it is worse
than presumptuous; it is blasphemous.
It must have been hell to thinking human beings back
then... not knowing the basics of how our Solar System works... heck, we just figured out not that long ago that there is more to the
universe than our galaxy.
The question
then is whether it actually makes more sense that something so complicated and intelligent really has a better chance
than a simple, unintelligent
universe of surviving infinite timelessness and being a «first cause»?
If the
universe is so intricate that it required God to create it,
then answer me this: If the complexity of a system can't possibly exist without God to create it,
then how does God, even more complex
than the
universe, exist without an even more super, complex God to have created him.
read up on quantum mechanics and tell me that sounds more realistic
then the notion of a being of superior knowledge manipulating the elements of earth to create sentient man... its a logical fallacy... if we can do what we can do in a
universe four billion years old, simple statistics demands
than someone else would have done it beforehand, especially if we had «evlved» so drastically in a cosmic blink of an eye, as the prophet richard dawkins likes to put it.
If this
universe was kikstarted by some god,
then so be it, can't disprove that, but the existence of that god prior to the expansion even is no more likely
than the materials of our
universe existing in a compressed energy state.
If our world were a centered
universe, a
universe with an all - seeing (i.e., all - prehending) God with the ability to introduce, on his own, new information pertaining to the past into the experience of emerging actual occasions by means of their subjective aims,
then our world would be a much more harmoniously ordered world
than it in fact is.
But
then at whatever time it takes place God would already have existed for an infinite period of time; and we would be faced with the Augustinian question of why God chose to create the
universe at that time rather
than at some other.
We must
then allow a place in our picture of the
universe for categories not reducible to those of science, and must preserve a role among the functions of the mind for other methods
than those of the scientist.
Finally, Hartshorne stresses the ethical and social defectiveness of humanism: if the total
universe and even human bodies are essentially loveless machines driven by blind forces, «
then it is impossible that the conception of spirit or love should have more
than a very fitful hold upon us.
What,
then, is more natural
than that this temperament should introduce one to regions of religious truth, to corners of the
universe, which your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt, thumping its breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn't a single morbid fibre in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self - satisfied possessors?
The story of creation
then glosses over how he made light travel faster
than light in order to make it appear that he had created the world 14 billion years ago when in fact he had created the
universe only 6000 years ago.
This popular scientific author goes on to say that physicists will eventually understand the basic laws of the
universe, and
then, «the existence of the
universe will hold no more mystery for those who choose to understand it
than the existence of the sun.»
So if that's the case,
then your god would necessarily have to be immensely more complex
than the
universe that he created.
Then as knowledge grew it looked more like a multiverse
than a
universe.
If purpose is intrinsic to a hierarchical
universe,
then it would be located at a higher level
than that of human consciousness.
With this number they don't take into account the rate the
universe is expanding (space actually expands FASTER
than light travels) and has previously expanded - we also know at one point the
universe stopped expanding and
then started expanding again.
Although I've found it very cathartic to speak, vent and end occasionally rant about all things Arsenal, we need to act carefully and intelligently right now or we're going to get played by this club even worse
than at present... the pro-Wengerites and the suits, who represent a considerable proportion of the season ticket holders, don't want to believe that there is no plan and that Wenger has mailed it in for several years now or that things are going to get much worse before they get better... why would they... many have spent a considerable sum buying some of the highest priced tickets in the World... they want to have a front row seat to see something special and to be seen doing so, which simply provides ample justification for the expense and the time invested... to many of them, Wenger is the sun in their soccer
universe... his awkward disposition, misplaced arrogance and his utter lack of balls makes him a rather unusual cult figure, but the cerebral narrative seemed to embolden those who already felt pretty highly of themselves... many might not even of really liked football that much before his arrival and rarely games they weren't attending... as such, they desperately believe that Wenger, and only Wenger, can supply them with their required fix... if he goes, they were wrong and that's a tough pill to swallow... they would have to admit that they were duped... they will definitely resent whoever made them feel this way, but of course it will be too late by
then... so when we go overboard with ridiculous comments bordering of anarchy, it scares the shit out of them and they shift their blame towards us rather
than at those who really perpetrated this act of treason... we aren't the enemy... we simply woke much earlier and the reason our comments have gotten more vile in recent years is out of utter frustration... in order for any real change to occur at this club we need to bring as many supporters as possible with us or the big money interests will fade and our ultimate objective will be lost... so it's time to focus on the head instead of the heart for now
While I think this can be an incredibly useful feature, I'm concerned that we'll tend to start over-thinking the
universe we create our content for and
then start creating content that; s highly segmented — but of less -
than - maximum quality.
If dark energy slows and
then flips, eventually pulling in tandem with, rather
than against, gravity, the Big Crunch — in which our local
universe is crushed down into an infinitely small speck — will be back on the cards, although this seems less likely now.
Because all elements in the
universe heavier
than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion in the cores of stars and
then scattered into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.
If it is smaller
than 1 [percent], another might be right, but
then just to add and as I often try and do, I muddy the water, we've also argued recently that, unfortunately, there are other mechanisms in the early
universe that could also produce a gravitational wave signal that would mimic that due to inflation.
Rather
than arising from stars, such exotic objects could have emerged in the first moments after the big bang, coalescing from particularly dense regions of the fiery plasmatic fog that
then suffused the
universe.
If, after multiple measurements with this experimental setup, scientists found that the measurements of the particles were correlated more
than predicted by the laws of classical physics, Kaiser says,
then the
universe as we see it must be based instead on quantum mechanics.
In a 2013 observational study, University of Wisconsin - Madison astronomer Amy Barger and her
then - student Ryan Keenan showed that our galaxy, in the context of the large - scale structure of the
universe, resides in an enormous void — a region of space containing far fewer galaxies, stars and planets
than expected.
After all that, the
universe still looks rather less crinkly
than we would expect, so it must have been smoothed out by a spontaneous faster -
than - light expansion in the earliest phase of its existence, which
then just stopped.
«These temperatures are likely because the
universe then was warmer
than today and the gas was unable to cool effectively,» explains lead author and PhD student Shmuel Bialy of Tel Aviv University.
We may be able to probe literally physics of the
universe at the time when the
universe was less
than a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a second old and, in fact, the current best ideas about what happened
then are due to this guy...
And
then I also thought about the fact that over the history of the life of the
universe, neutrinos are not just produced by the sun, but when stars explode in a supernova, the most brilliant fireworks in the
universe, as brilliant as those fireworks are, less
than 1 percent of the energy of the star is coming out in light; 99 percent is coming out as neutrinos and so neutrinos are being, [and] every time [a star explodes there's] an incredible burst of neutrinos.
But the crazy thing about empty space, weighing something --[well,] there are many crazy things — it produces a gravitational repulsion, rather
than the attractions so the expansion of the
universe is speeding up; but this stuff is so mysterious and inexplicable — completely inexplicable right now — that many physicists have been driven wild and mad and have changed what we might mean by fundamental physics by suggesting, for example, that the fundamental concepts in nature are not really fundamental at all, they are accidental; they are an environmental accident; that the are many
universes and we just happen to live in the one that has the values it does because if you changed it a little bit
then we wouldn't be living.
As they point out, if purely by chance, we happen to be in a kind of a lumpy
universe, that is not expanding smoothly, that some parts of it are expanding faster
than others and as a result, if we happen to be in the middle of what is kind of relatively a huge void against a much larger
universe than what we see,
then that could explain what's going on.
The man who limned the laws that guide the paths of stars, planets, and falling apples had this to say about the
universe: «I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and
then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell
than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.»
If all such compact dwarf galaxies are stripped, she argues,
then their black holes may also be unexpectedly massive — meaning these behemoths are much more abundant in the
universe than previously thought.