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Do you believe in God?

Do you believe in a supreme being?


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I don't know how this slipped through the cracks but I'm stepping into request everyone to respect AC's official rules, and sticking closely to the OP's original intent. This has clearly crossed the "debate" boundary and I would like to see it put back on track.

Regarding Politics and Debating Religion


Thanks.
 
I don't know how this slipped through the cracks but I'm stepping into request everyone to respect AC's official rules, and sticking closely to the OP's original intent. This has clearly crossed the "debate" boundary and I would like to see it put back on track.

Regarding Politics and Debating Religion


Thanks.
I should read more of the guidelines of this site. I don't know if I was debating or not (as I am okay with a belief in higher powers and okay with not believing in higher powers); I think I was discussing, but if I was debating, I'm sorry for that.
 
[QUOTE="pushpin, if I was debating, I'm sorry for that.[/QUOTE]

Oh don't worry Pushpin wasn't you, I think what happened was the after glow from a debate on Big bang followed me to this thread, I was using similar natural empirical law arguments there. I thought I was careful to be polite, but I am not a sentimental person the study of facts, laws, and patterns are a chess game to me, cheating upsets me more than who wins or who loses. Anyways wasn't me who complained I enjoyed talking with you and everyone else on both threads. Best wishes Mael
 
[QUOTE="pushpin, [/QUOTE]

Hi so since no one seemed to understand my first post, and someone seemed confused by my language as to weather I believed in God. I thought would tell my real story on why I do. So as a auspie I love to play this game called why, I will ask all the why's on a subject untill there are none left. So one day I asked my self why is God good and where are all the rest of his people are they all dead? So I started picking apart what it would be like to live in his world. So if you were a being that was advanced enough to upgrade your self at will, what would wipe out your race. It couldn't be disease, easily dealt with at that level. And war doesn't mean much to a race that can record and re-clone the dead, anyway they couldn't have been a very suicidal race if they reached such a high level. Very puzzling. So then I thought what would it be like to live millions of years, to watch stars born grow and flicker out, like leaves falling from the trees in fall. Houses wouldn't mean much rising and crumbling like flickering shadows, wealth would pile up like sand, everything done again and again until boring, even memories would begin to flicker out like embers in the wind. Then I realized TIME, time its self was death, no mind no matter how perfectly balanced could survive the ravages of time and boredom forever. And one by one they likely turned their ships into the sun or stepped into space. So what protected Gods mind from the ravages of time? The only thing I could think of was, his love for caring for others brought him new joy and kept the boredom at bay, so kindness guarded his mind from time.
 
I always saw God outside of time, and even made time as a kind of glue to hold our world together, along with other mathematical thingies. But I quite like the kindness theory. It makes sense. I should hope that if we were created by a powerful, omnipotent being that we would spark an emotion that would help continue our existence and not one to cause a desire to shake up the cosmic Etch-a-Sketch and start over.
 
Yes and I don't remember ever not believing that God is real.

I think that this is perhaps because as a child I went to church with my family and so was around people that spoke of God as being real so I accepted it as being true. As I grew up though I had my own personal experiences of the presence of God which confimred for me the existance of God.
 
Yes. Becouse, then what? I live here, I live in pain , sometimes, theres good stuff too, and then what?
Yes I do belive that when you die you go to nowhere, but I belive that one day God is going to come and resurect us, and bring us home.

Dont want to start a debate here...XD
 
Sorry Did my best to be polite and respectful in answering questions regarding my posts.

Hi,

I would like to quickly and respectfully say something to you, then I'll be out of the thread for a while. I have read your posts in the past couple of pages, and in my professional opinion as someone involved with scientific research, I have to say that you have a fairly poor understanding of the science that you have talked about in your posts and the science that you think supports your argument. This isn't an attempt at a debate, and I'm not interested in discussing your opinions on religion. I seriously hope that you are just trolling us with what consists of your misinformed views of science. Again, I'm not interested in a science vs religion debate, or any religious debate. What I am saying is that if you are going to use science in your argument, at least get a basic understanding of the science that you wish to cite and use. That's all.
 
Thank you for your interest but the moderator has closed any debating. I do not know which post you are referring to perhaps if you page back more you will find your answer. I apologize if you felt trolled, it is hard to explain the logic chains in my auspie mind in such short posts, perhaps the posts were unwise without opportunity for adequate explanation, am new didn't know about debate rule. You may if you, really wish, chat me up sometime, am nice. Best wishes Mael.
 
I'm doing laundry, so I have some time to point out where your facts are off. Again, I am making this clear that I am not debating you. Debates are about opinions, and I am stating where you are just blatantly wrong about science, which is factual in nature. My technical training is in physics and astronomy, FYI. If you are genuinely interested in cosmology, a good place to start for an approachable technical description is with Ryden's introductory text on the subject (calculus required).

If you love science and, it is the study of the natural laws of the universe, you can apply Darwins general theory of upward evolution to the principle of a infinite solid state universe.

No, you can't apply Darwinian theory to the principle of an infinite solid state universe. Darwin's theory of evolution only applies to how life changes and evolves. The only place where Darwinian theory is both applicable and testable is on Earth, with life on Earth.

Also, the notion of a solid-state universe was an early hypothesis that got thrown out on the grounds that experimental data is wildly inconsistent with the predictions of what a solid-state universe would require.

This is a position I respectfully fundamentally disagree with, science is the discovery of hard laws in nature, said Newtonian laws are cited, and used to establish hard facts all the time. Unless you care to refute the law of infinite time, or the law of infinite conservation of the matterial universe, my argument stands. However you would cease to exist instantly if either law is overthrown, and you would be going against the standard scientific position on these laws. :)

There's a lot of wrong in this post. I'm not sure where to begin.

There is no law of infinite time. There simply isn't. There are valid solutions to the Friedmann equations that have the universe be in existence for a finite amount of time, and the Lambda CDM model, which is the most widely accepted solution of the equations, given observed data, requires that the universe is 13.7 billion years old. There's also no "infinite conservation of the matterial universe" whatever you mean by that. There is the conservation of mass-energy though, and that's consistent with the current scientific understanding of the origin of the universe.

It's simply wrong that science is the discovery of hard laws in nature and that Newtonian laws are hard laws of nature. The best that science can do is find a very precise approximation. Future discoveries that challenge the scope of certain laws of physics might, and probably will, uncover that what we thought are laws are only approximate in certain regimes. Newtonian mechanics is an excellent example of this, since it's only valid for objects with non-relativistic masses and velocities. I don't know what your level of math is, so you might not understand this next sentences. The current best picture of mechanics of objects of any speed who's mass isn't large enough to need general relativity is special relativity. Since that law is valid at any speed, and since Newtonian mechanics is valid at low speeds, then one can Taylor-expand the laws of special relativity about the small parameter v/c and recover the Newtonian laws in the low-velocity regime. You can also do this with general relativity with the appropriate small parameters there as well. So while out current understanding of the laws of physics is incredibly powerful and useful, at best, they are just approximations.

Precisely science is the confirmation of what is known by studying what is. Big bang does not match the even dispersal of galaxies at all. And Red shift, (the proof for Big bang), is a joke, it's center point is earth, the odds of that are ridiculess, and where is the leftover massive black hole that would be floating out side your window. And the color of light traveling a long distance will always be red regardless of speed or movement. It is simply the unraveling of liner light bunches due to collisions with sub-atomic matter in deep space. I am not famillar with Hawings Radiation but was not impressed with his stance on the nature of black holes and he is a hardline Darwinist as was the creator of big bang. On the time, there is no such thing as time, what we call time is just the measurement of movement, and the presence of movement today automatically makes any interruption in the past impossible, (no state can create a dead universe rule). Wish I could go into the sub-atomic stuff... and new laws, but my stuff is so intertwined that showing one thing will show another.... Best wishes

There are a few things to address here, so I guess I'll do them in order.

"And Red shift, (the proof for Big bang), is a joke": No, it does not imply that the solar system is at the center of the universe. The most common way of visualizing it is a 2-D analogue of markings on the surface of balloon. If you take a balloon, mark it with a sharpie, and inflate it, the markings all get farther and farther away from each other. Since this analogy is talking about only the surface of the balloon as a 2-D universe, all points see each other expand farther away from each other, and no points are at the center, since such a 2-D surface has no center. The universe is like that, but with three spacial dimensions. That might not be the best way to picture it, but it is an incredibly useful tool to help understand how we can see everything expanding away from us (and yes, this is an observed phenomena) and not be at the center of the universe.

"leftover black hole": This is not a requirement of the big bang. It's possible for there to be smaller black holes that originated in the big bang that evaporated away via Hawking Radiation, but there's no data of that as of yet, and big bang cosmology isn't dependent on their existence.

"And the color of light traveling a long distance will always be red regardless of speed or movement.": Nope, this is blatantly wrong. Color is our perception of different wavelengths/frequencies of light. The speed of light is constant to all observers in all frames of motion. This is a measured fact that the relative speed of whatever light is propagating from to an observer has no influence on the speed of light that the observer measures. In order to preserve the speed of light being the same in all frames of relative motion, intervals of time and length must change, which results in the frequencies and wavelengths of light changing, hence color changing. These are observed facts, and the fact that this happens really isn't a matter of debate.

"Hawking is a Darwinisnt": Yeah, so? Like the overwhelming majority of scientists, he accepts the fact that evolution happened. No big deal.

I'm sure that if I really felt like digging deeper or spending more time on this than I already have, I could find many more scientific misconceptions that you have. Again, it should be emphasized that this is not a debate. This is me, as someone who has had some technical training in the relevant fields of science, explaining that you don't understand what you are talking about. If you are interested in science, then I can give you recommendations of materials to help develop an understanding, but that's going to require an effort on your part to shake the misconceptions and misunderstandings that you clearly have.
 
[QUOTE="apt-get, I am not debating you. [/QUOTE]

(Sigh), You wrote me, (War and Peace), here, if you find me this fascinating perhaps you should buy me dinner, you certainly are the sassy little sort of thing that would catch my eye. Well I don't know what to do here you have called me out knowing this thread is Moderator sanctioned, (hardly fair). You have however moved off hallowed ground to science, which is off thread, so perhaps I can throw you a few crumbs, but you or anyone else need to find a venue the moderator approves of or message me directly.

If you look closely at posts 1, 2, and 3 you will see I used 3 arguments in a closed loop. All three are from your camp they were and still are as far as I'm concerned considered foundation laws, all three lean on each other for their existence.
Shall we start with matter its destruction is forbidden, no universe without it, (solid state). Continual movement of matter is required for both life and time to exist, time would have no meaning in a frozen universe, and perpetual motion gives you your infinity law. Perpetual motion with infinity law gives you infinite opportunities for life to evolve to maximum complexity.

Or you could have said my first post was nice and bought me dinner. On the light thing I have decided to make a small matterial reasignment which may in the future allow me to buy you, dinner, the house and the dog. Thank you! However if you take a blue pulse of light with close oscillation peaks and stretch it with bombardment I see no reason why it would not be red with wide oscillation peaks. If you want to go into law ladders, supernova ladders, matterial ladders, you had better be awfully cute and willing to bring lemon mirrang pies to me in prison, as we would be treading on Rods of God turf.....
 
I always have believed in God, and always questioned things...Religion has always interested me. I have looked into so many belief systems and here I am, one of Jehovah's Witnesses. I think it's important to question things until you get satisfying answers...One question that I always found people asking and which stopped people having a belief was, "if God exists, why doesn't he do something about the suffering in the world?" and it was something I have wondered about before, but I found answers...I'm not too sure if I can post a link up here to another website (feel free to remove it if it's not allowed), but, for those who are curious, I do recommend going to Jehovah’s Witnesses—Official Website: jw.org even if it's just to learn about another belief system...Learning is great and well worth the time, especially when it's about the questions that don't seem to get answered including ones that revolve around spiritual things. Check it out anyway if you want.
 
Note to the mods: Correcting someone on having their facts wrong is NOT debating. There's a huge difference. Debates are about opinions.

apt-get, I am not debating you.
If you look closely at posts 1, 2, and 3 you will see I used 3 arguments in a closed loop. All three are from your camp they were and still are as far as I'm concerned considered foundation laws, all three lean on each other for their existence.
Shall we start with matter its destruction is forbidden, no universe without it, (solid state). Continual movement of matter is required for both life and time to exist, time would have no meaning in a frozen universe, and perpetual motion gives you your infinity law. Perpetual motion with infinity law gives you infinite opportunities for life to evolve to maximum complexity.

I'm sorry, but you really need to get some basic science education. You don't understand the science that you are using nearly as well as you think you do. I can give you some reading and references if you like. I'm done replying in this thread, because I don't want this to be misconstrued as a debate (it isn't) when I'm telling you that you have your facts wrong.
 

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