Not exact matches
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament is full
of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less
of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000
years old), I believe God created the
universe on the very principle
of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash
of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the
universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets,
life itself and us.
«The fact that
life evolved out
of nearly nothing, some 10 billion
years after the
universe evolved out
of literally nothing — is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice.»
The
universe is 13.7 billion
years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism The earth is 4.5 billion
years old (cosmology: best estimate based on available data)- nothing to do with Atheism
Life emerged from non-
life (Biogenesis theory... cause and process unknown)- nothing to do with Atheism
Life spread and diversified through evolution (best available explanation)- nothing to do with Atheism Man evolved from common ape ancestor (evolution science)- nothing to do with Atheism Consciousness is an emergent property
of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Emotions, memories and intelligence are functions
of the brain (neuroscience)- nothing to do with Atheism Morals are emergent qualities
of social animals (natural science)- nothing to do with Atheism
I dare quess that 99 %
of folks believe that we
live in a singularity called a
universe when in a very literal sense we
live in a cosmos
of infinite amounts
of universes far too many to ever become known by our future generations even in a billion more
years of generations passing!
Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as
life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think
of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion
years of the
universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000
years).
Awareness is not tethered to the physical but relationship with the physical There is no such thing as non existence physically or conceptually Agency
of time and space must be outside our subset
of existence and predate singularity Our known world is configured to be appear concentric Probability
of intelligent
life in only 14 billion
years is one out
of ten to the power
of 127 assuming one
universe.
Probability
of intelligent
life in only 14 billion
years is one out
of ten to the power
of 127 assuming one
universe.
In 1864, Louis Pasteur proved that point in one case, showing that spontaneous generation (that
life could originate from nonliving matter, also called abiogenesis), though accepted by some in the scientific community (such as Belgian chemist Jan Baptist van Helmont about 200
years earlier, who also believed that the basic elements
of the
universe was just air and water), was untrue.
everything is made up
of atoms (don't believe me do some research) its the different variables
of heat and light and things like that that cause different reactions to make different things and these things when they interact can create something completely different and you and slowly the process
of mitosis or miosis starts to work and form stuff hell i learnt that in high school and it was a catholic one at that a millions
of years ago i bet the
universe was completely different and had things in it that our minds cant even imagine that have since changed over time from action and reaction to what we have today and in another million
years who knows with all the different gases we pump into the air and the weather getting more intense on both ends
of the scale
life as we know it will be different the human race will have to evolve to survive and will probibly form into a slightly different species hell maybe well evolve into 2 different species like in the movie time machine
From this beginning came all that followed, so everything that is is related, woven into a seamless network, with
life gradually emerging after billions
of years on this planet (and perhaps on others) and resulting in the incredibly complex, intricate
universe we see today.32 To think
of God as the creator and continuing creator / sustainer
of this massive, breathtaking cosmic fact dwarfs all our traditional images
of divine transcendence — whether political or metaphysical.
While I no longer believe the earth is just 6,000
years old, I still
live in the tension
of unanswered questions about the
universe, and death, and brains, and Neanderthals, and whatever Neil deGrasse Tyson's got to say on public television about the earth getting burned up by the sun or our species going extinct after an asteroid hits.
The same God who created this
universe,
life, and humans, saved Noah's family and the animals, brought his people out
of slavery in Egypt, parted the red sea, fed them for 40
years in the wilderness, gave them the land he promised, and made them a great people.
Has
life on earth labored along for two or three billion
years in lonesome struggle eventually to eke out by accident the human species which has to gather itself together in various fragile social arrangements in order to protect itself from the intolerable muteness
of the
universe?
NONE
of you have proof
of «God's» existance... a made up fairy tale created by people who
lived over 2,000
years ago as a way to explain the
universe and apply a general set
of laws... yeah, it was great for the time... i guess... but there is no place for religion in today's societies.
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.
It is indeed to be considered «free thinking» to always curiously trying to understand the origins
of life and the
universe through science rather than just accepting a 2,000
year old (or more) fairy tale.
Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions
of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for
life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions
of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest
of the
universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration
of an older story told prior to the advent
of the Judeo Christian religion.
If the
universe began several billion
years ago and went through billions
of years of development before any
life was possible, one must ask the classical theist the point
of this extended period
of development.
For example, how do we see the creative and redemptive love
of God through the perspective
of the age - long development
of the immense
universe, only a speck
of which we inhabit, and
of the evolution
of sentient and rational
life on this earth through thousands and millions
of years?
It's a greater fantasy NOT to believe that there is an all powerful invisible god somewhere in the
universe who knows everything, can do anything, hears everyone's thoughts, etc, or that someone died and rose from the dead three days later (this same person was born
of a virgin), or that someone spoke to god via a burning bush, or that one old man, who
lived to be 900
years old, built a boat that held two
of every animal on the earth to survive a worldwide flood?
I am pretty certain a 35
year - old carpenter who
lived in a remote desert 2,000
years ago, had nothing to do with the creation
of the
universe.
Life appeared in the
universe some billions
of years after its origin in the hypothetical «Big Bang.»
I know that I have certain beliefs that some members
of my Church would find heretical (like I believe in evolution, the
universe being 10 billion
years old, and that there has to be at least one other world where the accident we call
live followed a similar path to that
of Sol - Jupiter 3, or as we know it Earth).
They don't understand that many religious people, including the Pope, have no problem whatsoever with a 14 billion
year old
universe full
of life evolved on a million planets.
Fine Tuning
of the
universe In the past 30 or 40
years, scientists have been astonished to find that the initial conditions
of our
universe were fine - tuned for the existence
of building blocks
of life.
For several
years I have asked students in introductory theology classes to make a list
of the half dozen most important and foundational things they believe about them - selves, the
universe and their place in it — convictions that clearly affect the choices they make and the ways they choose to
live.
2000
years, extraordinary changes in what we know about the
universe, extraordinary differences in technologies, how we trade, share ideas, art, literature, knowledge
of all kinds, standard
of living, moral standards are much higher.
Here and there it may be, we can catch a glimpse
of the wonderful order in nature, the regularity
of the stars, scattered over the wide spaces
of the
universe yet obedient to one law; the order to be found even in the microscopic world, as also within visible things concerning which science has given such amazing information in recent
years; the order in the construction
of a flower or
of an animal, from the flea to the whale, a noteworthy obedience to law even in the
life of man.
That God's love, manifest in diverse ways throughout the duration
of the
universe, might come to a full and unsurpassable self - expression in an individual human being who
lived and died in the Middle East almost two thousand
years ago does not seem incongruous with what we now understand about the nature
of an evolving
universe, especially if we regard religion as a phenomenon emergent from the
universe rather than just something done on the earth by cosmically homeless human subjects.
Over the last five - hundred
years science has found
universes far beyond our imagination, it has broken the framework
of the Judeo creation myth and traced the evolution
of life out
of some primordial muck.
As the tiny microbe adapting itself into a human space traveler over the billions
of years on this planet we have a far greater responsibility to keep this
life moving than we would if it was just some supernatural beings
universe where the deity already knows everything that is ever going to happen.
Once you understand that you're seeing across thosands if not millions
of light
years... how magnificently HUGE the
universe is, you'll understand how truly insignificant you are... and how pointless it is to get your panties in a wad over each and every tribulation in your
life.
Over thirty
years later, James disparaged this same view, saying that,
of course, «We want a
universe where we can just give up, fall on our father's neck, and be absorbed into the absolute
life as a drop
of water melts into the river or the sea» (PRAG 140).
I just realized that an eternal being creating the
universe in 7 days and 8000
years of total existence defies the logic
of what has been proven by some
of the brightest minds ever to
live on this planet.
If your invisible, untraceable alien claims responsibility for the creation
of the
universe and
life on this planet, if your invisible, untraceable alien created a race
of people, led them out
of slavery in a foreign land, appeared to them countless times, spoke thru prophets to them over thousands
of years, and all
of that interaction was successively captured in a book over those thousands
of years..
Is it to
live a few miniscule
years on this tiny planet among the immense
universe to then go join God and do nothing the rest
of eternity?
Christ
lived 2,000
years ago in the bronze age when human beings still thought the world was flat, believed in Genesis, that the Earth was the center
of the
universe, and that people getting sick was the will
of God.
It took the Supreme Court a mere twenty - five
years to make this premise explicit, in the famous «Mystery Passage»
of the 1992 Casey decision: «At the heart
of liberty is the right to define one's own concept
of existence,
of meaning,
of the
universe, and
of the mystery
of human
life.»
You clearly are just spouting rhetoric that has been told to you for
years, science has explained the origin
of life and the
universe in complete terms that are measurable, unlike religions.
The famous blogger behind The Wednesday Chef chronicles a
year of her
life in and out
of the kitchen and letmetellyou, from the few pages I've read already (I'm the slowest reader in the
universe), it is good reads.
Within the massive scope
of our known
universe, hundreds
of billions
of light
years wide, there's no galaxy, no
life form, nothing that remotely cares about what I did or didn't do with my
life.
From my 25
years of clinical experience, children who constantly occupy the center
of their parents»
universe tend not to fare so well in
life.
Imagine stepping into a time machine, one that could traverse not only billions
of years but also countless light
years of space, all in search
of life in the
universe.
The survey also found that 43 percent
of evangelicals supported a strong creationist view in which «God created the Earth, the
universe and all
life within the past 10,000
years.»
About 500 million
years after the Big Bang, one
of the first galaxies in the
universe formed, containing stars
of about the same mass as the sun — which can
live for 10 billion
years — as well as lighter stars.
Billions
of years ago the
universe was too hot for
life to exist.
Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet
years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for
life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the
universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan,
of the Planetary Society.
Earlier this week I had the very great pleasure
of catching up with Lee Billings, the author
of Five Billion
Years of Solitude, a beautifully written and provocative new book about the quest to find other Earths, other
life in the
universe.
Years later, this old fellow waits for young disciples to make it up the mountain cliffs and sit at his feet while he meditates on the meaning
of the
universe - and,
of course, on the job - seeking process in the
life sciences.
He served 4
years as the project manager for the University
of Hawaii node
of the NASA Astrobiology Institute where he oversaw a highly interdisciplinary team working on diverse topics relating to the origin, distribution and evolution
of life in the
universe.