Cerpin Taxt
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No, there doesn't.If you trace all movement back there has to be something that moved but was not itself moved.
No, there doesn't.If you trace all movement back there has to be something that moved but was not itself moved.
But then this kinda begs the question: "if God did jump start life, why doesn't he want us to at least know he did it?".
I mean, any intelligent being takes and, quite frankly, deserves credit for his handiwork.
DNA and proteins had to have been formed/created at the same time.
No, there doesn't.
What an elegant, detailed solution to a philosophical question unresolved since Aristotle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover
You must be a super geneyus.
Ancient Greek philosophical theories don't necessarily have anything to do with the physical world and how it actually works.
You can run away and I'll fire an arrow at your back to test it out if you want to?
<- 2 years of grad school in applied physics.
What are your credentials?
No one wants to argue the points, just attack the person? Shocking!
EDIT: Einstein believed in God.
EDIT2: I have to go to work, so I won't be able to stick around to educate you on thinking for yourselves and not blindly accepting what people tell you. That's what you should argue, not that religion is bad or stupid. Too many scientific zealots in the world, I think I prefer the rational believer.
How does this background qualify you to speak authoritatively on ambiogenesis or evolution?<- 2 years of grad school in applied physics.
EDIT: Einstein believed in God.
<- 2 years of grad school in applied physics.
What are your credentials?
No one wants to argue the points, just attack the person? Shocking!
EDIT: Einstein believed in God.
EDIT2: I have to go to work, so I won't be able to stick around to educate you on thinking for yourselves and not blindly accepting what people tell you. That's what you should argue, not that religion is bad or stupid. Too many scientific zealots in the world, I think I prefer the rational believer.
EDIT: Einstein believed in God.
Belief in God tends to be a placeholder until we understand something.
At first, we thought God controlled the weather and environment. Now we know about thermal pockets and patterns caused by various factors. Then we thought god created the earth. Now we know it was created through accretion of materials left over from a supernova explosion. Then we thought god created the galaxy (which until about 80 years we thought was the whole universe). Now we know the galaxy was formed by gravitational attraction, most likely built up starting with a super massive black hole. Now we're to the point where God created the universe...and we actually have models that explain what happened in the universe trillionths of a second after it's formation. If we get to the point where we can explain the fraction of a second BEFORE the universe was created, God will be pushed back yet again. We currently believe that our universe is part of a "multiverse",and we actually have some evidence suggesting that our universe was formed when two or more "universe bubbles" crashed into each other. These universes each have their own laws of physics, and it just so happens that we live in one where gravity is weak enough to allow particles to bond into complex molecules and we can exist.
Now, did a supreme being create the multiverse? It's possible, and we may never be able to answer that. My current view of God is he exists....as physics. God is the physical laws of our universe that allowed us to come about.
That's the classic "god of the gaps" idea; where "God did it" replaces the pieces of knowledge that we don't know about.
Some are even saying now that the "God particle" equates God being spread across the entire universe as Higgs-Boson particles. This idea goes along with what someone was saying in a different thread about their wife thinking that God was basically the "fabric" of the universe itself.
At that point, if God is simply the universe itself, the idea of God no longer conforms with what was presented in any of the holy scriptures of any of the major religions, and you might as well just say "I worship the universe because it exists all around me".
The problem is really in none of any holy book is God ever said as being anything like a human. Some of the prophets have taken on human form, but that is not God.
When God has spoken to people in various books, it was never to be literally taken as voice communication.
Many people simply don't understand their own books about their God, even fewer understand the politics and history at the various times of that books life and the affects they had on it.
That's the classic "god of the gaps" idea; where "God did it" replaces the pieces of knowledge that we don't know about.
Some are even saying now that the "God particle" equates God being spread across the entire universe as Higgs-Boson particles. This idea goes along with what someone was saying in a different thread about their wife thinking that God was basically the "fabric" of the universe itself.
At that point, if God is simply the universe itself, the idea of God no longer conforms with what was presented in any of the holy scriptures of any of the major religions, and you might as well just say "I worship the universe because it exists all around me".
The problem is really in none of any holy book is God ever said as being anything like a human. Some of the prophets have taken on human form, but that is not God.
When God has spoken to people in various books, it was never to be literally taken as voice communication.
Many people simply don't understand their own books about their God, even fewer understand the politics and history at the various times of that books life and the affects they had on it.
The burning bush seemed to be a direct communication.
So the possibilities are:
1) Superbeing communicating with people using telepathy
2) schizophrenic people who thought they were hearing voices
Boy that's a tough one. One of those sure isn't more likely than the other one at all...
So the possibilities are:
1) Superbeing communicating with people using telepathy
2) schizophrenic people who thought they were hearing voices
Boy that's a tough one. One of those sure isn't more likely than the other one at all...
It says God made man "in his own image."The problem is really in none of any holy book is God ever said as being anything like a human.
Gen 1:26 said:And God said: Let us make mankind in our image
The God particle is misnamed and physicists hate the term. The Higgs boson is what gives matter mass...makes things tangible. It has nothing to actually do with, nor suggest the presence of, a supreme being.
Also, if God is simply "the universe", our brains are part of what makes it sentient...so you could say all humans are gods.