[lbryce]

Reconciling God, Science, the Universe, Our very existence

[rightwingcrazy]

Something from nothing? Where did nothing come from?

[Vaquero]

“Me, I'm waiting so patiently Lying on the floor I'm just trying to do this jig-saw puzzle Before it rains anymore”

Jagger/Richards

[jsanders2001]

Beavis: Yeah uh like I uh just had my back turned and heard this big bang and turned around and uh...it was just there...

[spirited irish]

Actually, Giberson is reconciling his own deistic puppet god with scientism and his own version of a man-centered universe.

[P.O.E.]

The math is getting smaller than we can test experimentally.

[lbryce]

Okay the Universe couldn’t come from nothing. So where did God come from?

[onedoug]

There was an interesting post some time earlier,

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3267460/posts

...that links the so-called j-invariant in the study of elliptic curves from number theory with quantum gravitation.

One can get into the details for themselves. But it strikes me as odd as to how the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture that all elliptic curves are modular forms, and vice versa, should be what ultimately led Andrew Wiles of Princeton to his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem that otherwise seems to have no practical applications.

But my head hurts now, and in Wiles immortal words, “I think I’ll stop here.”

[The_Reader_David]

I hope all the Christians posting scornful remarks to this thread remember that creation ex nihilo, that is from nothing, has been standard Christian doctrine from Apostolic times onward. For those of us who did not follow Luther's abridgement of the canon of Scripture, that is all us Orthodox, Latin, Coptic, Armenian and Assyrian Christians, it's even a Biblical doctrine -- see 2 Maccabees 7:28.

[Don Corleone]

The very first sentence of the Bible explains it all very simply,”In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the earth”. In the beginning (TIME) God created the heavens (SPACE)(Space Time if you prefer)and the Earth,(Matter). Space,Time and Matter, the whole enchilada.There it is all wrapped up in one sentence and it has only been within the last 100 years or so since Einstein, that the scientists have come up with the space-time concepts.

[kinsman redeemer]

For me it is simple.
God created ...
And it is marvelous. It is far beyond my understanding.
The more I learn, the more I am amazed- and with good reason.

[PubliusMM]

“We don’t know what lit the spark that launched the grand adventure of our universe...”

Uh...News Flash...That would be GOD.