Enjoyed The Last Question. Took a while to make his point but it was nice anyway. I'd read the Egg before and enjoyed that too. Thanks for sharing
That's irrelevant to anything and honestly just a silly statement. Let me know when humans come up with a way to time travel to the beginning of time and give me a first hand account of what happened. That's essentially the only place/time the real explanation can be found.
See here's my problem with this statement. Let's say there is a creator and he created this one universe. You can't prove it. I can't prove it. But for some reason, your inability to prove it is acceptable yet when science puts the laborious task of trying to explain the existing universe we are apart of, it gets discredited because it doesn't answer the big big question (as well as a ton of others!). Instead, it does it's best to. It doesn't just stop at every unexplained phenomena and say it's a creator's will and leave it at that. Do you know how short our human life spans would be if we said every unexplained phenomena since the history of our species was, "It's just God's will"? We wouldn't have come up with the polio vaccine. We wouldn't be able to manipulate the electromagnetic force to give light in our homes when it's dark. We would literally still be in the Dark Ages. Now I dunno about you but I rather like that a potential global epidemic didn't wipe out our species because we chose to actually probe and try to not only answer the big questions, but ask even bigger ones, because that's true progress. I also like the fact that I can freely express my opinion on the internet without having to say it to your face (thanks science for cracking electromagnetism) because come on. Like I'd ever talk to you. Science is making this civil post between you and I happen. I think it's pretty cool we can both live in a universe where you can believe God is the answer to everything difficult your mind can't wrap itself around and I can just stress free admit that I may be wrong because I don't know for sure and I might very well be too dumb to ever understand it. Meh. You continue thinking you're right with 100% certainty though. I'm sure it helps you sleep well at night. EDIT: With the recent discovery from BICEP2 regarding gravitational waves, and with our understanding of quantum mechanics we can go back pretty far into the early universe and know to some degree our origins shortly after the Big Bang. I like watching Sixty Symbols on Youtube. They dumb down science for me to understand. One of the professors, Ed Copeland said something to the effect that to make a machine powerful enough to get energy levels to create the early universe, we'd basically have to have a LHC-like machine equivalent to the size of a planet. All that tells me is this. We gotta keep answering the big big questions so we can be self sustainable with our planet and then start going into deep space. Our scientists and engineers gotta keep improving on our technology many many many years in the future so we can eventually get so advanced we can make blueprints for a planet sized particle smasher so can we create our own universe (any science fiction writers on this board?) and answer that big question of our origins for you DudeWah.
^^I love the part where you assumed I believe God magically did everything. Nice assumption. I don't. What I said actually has more to do with what you're saying than you know. It's the simple concept of I don't know. I choose to believe we'll never fully know because to fully know a past event there has to be some sort of first hand account. And we will likely never have one.
You stating if I lived 100 years ago I wouldn't believe society has advanced to where it has today is silly. Im not sure what that's even supposed to prove. Also. It's obvious in the last 150 years humanity has progressed exponentially. But there's so many random variables to acheive being able to accurately tell how everything began 100%. Humanity will probably wipe itself out before that ever happens.
Ya didn't mean to call you out specifically on the whole deity stuff. I don't think we'll wipe ourselves out though. I mean the same technology used to fire nuclear and chemical weapons across the globe is the same technology we used to propel ourselves in space. Just need the right kinda people controlling these missions and instead of propelling weapons at ourselves, we should aim for the sky. Except for the ones that can't break the earth's atmosphere and have no real specific purpose for being up in the sky. Those should stay on the ground.
The Big Bang works for me. On another note, the male cop contestant on Survivor made a really interesting point that I had never thought of before. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, dinosaurs had eggs, and dinosaurs existed before chickens existed as a species. Therefore, the egg most certainly came before the chicken. So at least we have that question answered.
The Big Bang - Big Crunch theory is not supported by the evidence as we currently view it. The universe is expanding. The expansion is accelerating. In 100 billion years, so the current thought process goes, our galaxy will be floating alone in a sea of black, too far from the other galaxies to see them at all. A civilization in our galaxy 100 billion years from now might believe that there is only one galaxy in the cosmos.
One of the biggest questions in life, and one we will most likely never know the answer to. Space is such a strange concept in general.
