Re: Faith
By: Owl to All on Mon Feb 06 2012 21:20:00
> Consider the following...the big bang theory states that just 'prior' to the
> big bang (which actually doesn't make a lot of sense) there was nothing...no
> mass, no space, no time...not a spec of the smallest/microscopic anything...
> there was no space, no emptiness...and no time. And from 'this' which actua
I haven't yet encountered a theory that adequately addresses this problem, but
there have been a number of attempts at doing so. In the end they all tend to
come back to some sort of infinite loop, or a time when there was nothing. (If
our universe was created out of the remains of another, then where did that
other come from? And so forth.) It's frustrating indeed.
> didn't exist, because there was no `this' came everything...and what is the
> proof for this? Well, there really is no proof, because the scientific
> theories can only get us back to a few seconds prior to the BigBang. So
> actually what science is relying on is faith, in the faith that their theori
> are true, without having any real proof. Faith is also the basis for religi
All that a "believer" in the big bang theory needs to decide is whether God set
that process in motion or if some as-yet-unexplained phenomenon was
responsible.
To choose "God" as the answer is to choose faith. You've now got your final
answer to every question. Why did this happen? Because of God! You need
never ask another question for as long as you live, because you already "know"
the answer.
I don't have "faith" in science. I don't trust that everything it has ever
told me is true. A new discovery could be made at any time that totally blows
away things that I've accepted as "fact" for most of my life. That's fine by
me. I prefer a pursuit of real answers rather than acceptance of hollow
assurances. I can accept my own ignorance and the limits of current knowledge.
I can accept that what I think is true may in fact be false. I can live
without a safety net based on a fairy tale. I simply accept what I feel is the
best answer until something else comes along.
I don't believe that there is a God, but I tend to think of myself as an
agnostic. I would accept God if it could be proven to me. I can't disprove
God as I don't have the means at my disposal to do so. I also can't readily
prove that there isn't a magical pink elephant dancing around on the far side
of the moon, but I can choose to dismiss it as silliness because, really, it's
pretty fucking unlikely.
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