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Originally Posted by Rockstar
I'll be honest Skybird, I have preconceived notions. 60 years ago it was thought the universe was eternal then two fellas Robert Wilson and Arno Penzias discovered echos of a big bang. Now for the last fifty years or so science is, I think, in agreement that the universe had a beginning. Something a 3000 year old book had already stated.
Also, one of the reasons I disagree with Multi Universe Theory it is used in an attempt to deny the universe has a beginning and direction that it is just one big random chance or fluke. And it just doesnt matter to me if we evolved from the simple to the complex. What matters for me is today.
What I want to know, is the brain a function of the soul or is the soul a function of the brain that needed to interpret the energy surrounding us in this dimension of space time and matter. Why are we sentient self aware capable of emotion thought amd feelings when the matter of the universe that from which our bodies come from is not.
Though this too was written some 2-3 thousand years ago. Will this be the next big discovery?
...and breathed into his nostils the inspiration of life, and there was in the body of Adam the inspiration of a speaking spirit, unto the illumination of the eyes and the hearing of the ears. [And the Adam became a soul of life.]. - Targumin Onkelos
Anyway as for my intial post I found the flash of light at conception just reminded me of the intial intense light at the beginning of the universe which eventually became time space matter.
And I will try to find a used book of Dawkins and give it a go.  |
Well, we can make clear statements about that the Big Bang is the most likely scenario indeed, the hints and evidence is all around us and is overwhelming, it radiates right through us while sit here and talk. Its a theory - but a damn well proven one by now, and thus the by far dominant paradigm. But then the question is: why did a Big Bang happen? And where did it take place when time and space did not exist? This is where cosmologists today try to give answers. Inflation of the universe also is an observation that you cannot deny currently: we know, by all reason, that the universe is constantly inflating/expanding, we know it for sure, we have proven it, the evidence is not objected by anyone: and we know that thus objects like other galaxies do race away from us the faster the further away they are - by this phenomenon even the speed of light in the future will be broken. The analogy often used here is that of rosins in a cake dough that is working and expanding. You mentioned that book, the Bible. But the Bible gives no explanation on the mechanism described by modern astronomy and cosmology, and many fundamental Christians take form that book that Earth is just 6000 years old and that humans lived side by side with dinosaurs - while science knows and can prove so much better that Earth is several billion years old, 4.8 I think, and that the Big Bang is 13.72 billion years ago. Finally, attributing the cause of existence to a deity, like the Bible does, does nothing for me, because then the next question is: where did ''God come from, where did he exist, how did it/her/she come into being?" Same question like about the Big Bang, only that science tries to answer this question about why there was a Big Bang, where as fundamentalist believers simply chose to see "Its the deity!" as the absolute, penultimate answer to these questions. You understand that I cannot share your attempt therefore to link science and religion here. They are no companions, but antagonists, and they always have been and they always will and must be - necessarily.