It's Been Awhile Wayne

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Boom!

 

I got you dawg.

 

Professor Dave Jennings explained everything you need to know on the subject matter.
Bradpitted.

 

If there was a prime moment of creation, who or what created that?

If you quiet your mind, where does it start, where does it reside, where does it end?

If a wave breaks and no one sees it, did it really break?

If you saw a Muslim child dying, would you try to help?

If a being lived in ignorance of a deity such as Christ, out in the jungle, is that being damned? Even if that being lived a virtuous life? Was that creation damned at birth due to circumstance?

If a moron says you are going to hell, are you?

If you live the Golden Rule, is that not enough?

Just askin'

Peace and waves!

 

321 blastoff, the shuttle has launched!

 

Wouldn't that be 1-666-666-6666??

 

There are many theories on what started our universe. All we have evidence of is the actual big bang and events that occurred after. However, the hypothesis I like best is the expansion and collapse idea. We know the universe is constantly expanding, and that the area in between isn't just empty space. Many think it will get to a point where the forces no longer allow expansion, and thus lead to the universe starting to collapse. Once everything collapses to a single point, you have another big bang. And this process continues over and over again.
The deity thing sort of makes me scratch my head. What evidence do we have that, given the possibility of a being having the power of universal creation, only one "supreme being" exists? What if there are many beings working on this project? Who created this being or beings? (since religious folks like to throw out that "Who created the big bag?" question)

This is a good read: http://www.hawking.org.uk/the-beginning-of-time.html

 

Shall we call it the "accordion theory"??
Which, btw, is the one I buy into, simply because the evidence points in that direction.
Neither god, nor allah, nor zeus said I should believe it. "Just the facts, M'am, just the facts"....

 

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.




"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.



`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Some will get it; others won't.

 

Thanks for the link Brew. That was a good read.

 

Sweet!

Gave me goose bumps.

 

Some native Americans called it Wanka Tanka - the Eternal Mysterious. I kinda like that concept. Not everything has to be explained. Our best science now will be looked at in the future as primitive. Some things evolve. Some things just are. Or is.

 

But it is our drive to know "why" that improves science and leads to more explanations. If we all just believed god did it, there would be no reasons for scientific advancement.

 

Yankee, next time I see you you owe me a beer...every time I see this thread title I think of:

 

Very true. I think there is truth in both sides of the debate, and science theory and a theory of an original creator can co-exist. Mostly. To rational people, anyways. Fanatics are a whole 'nother ball of wax. You can't spell fundamental without "mental".