Do you actually believe that crap, guv? I don't need to "ask God"! He's already revealed the answer. It takes a lot of "faith" to believe the impossible, and it's easier to believe Him...
Posted on 03/17/2006 3:46:30 AM PST by snarks_when_bored
According to Bishop Ussher, maybe, but his timeline is not the standard accepted. It is derived from his studies, which were just as good as anybody else's, in his day. The only sure thing for a theist, is the old standby, "In the beginning, God created..."
He "spoke", and it came into existence... It's quite easily defended with articles like this, which defy accepted critical theory...
The guy works in mysterious ways, and would not answer even if I asked. Quite to the contrary, he would likely punish me for my impudence, so why don't you ask instead! :)
My feeble understanding of science, is that you can't make something out of nothing. How can you take mass the size of a marble and generate the relative mass of the universe, much less our solar system, or even my back yard, without adding something along the line?
Alan Guth, one of the co-developers of inflationary cosmology, has called the universe the ultimate free lunch. The 'marble' is made up of something called 'false vacuum', which has negative pressure. As it expands, it heats up and the resultant heat energy starts to congeal (as it were) into the ordinary types of elementary particles we see today.
A second to God is like a lifetime to us mortals.
Everything was created about 1/2 hour ago, when I got up.
Do you actually believe that crap, guv? I don't need to "ask God"! He's already revealed the answer. It takes a lot of "faith" to believe the impossible, and it's easier to believe Him...
...the exponential decay of the false vacuum is slower than the exponential expansion. Even though the false vacuum is decaying, the expansion outruns the decay and the total volume of false vacuum actually increases with time rather than decreases. Thus inflation does not end everywhere at once, but instead inflation ends in localized patches, in a succession that continues ad infinitum. Each patch is essentially a whole universe — at least its residents will consider it a whole universe — and so inflation can be said to produce not just one universe, but an infinite number of universes. These universes are sometimes called bubble universes, but I prefer to use the phrase “pocket universe,” to avoid the implication that they are approximately round.
Some researchers are also now working on the idea that not only is inflation future-eternal (i.e., there's no end to it) but it's also past-eternal (i.e., there was no beginning to it). So inflation was, is and always will be. Sound familiar?
But, clearly, this is work in progress...
It's difficult for mere mortals like us to comprehend that God always was and always will be because we measure the short time between our birth and death in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years.
That short span is like an instant.
So, in other words, it does exactly what scientists have taught is impossible, historically? Instead, he makes up this nice theory to fit his suppositions. Unbelievable, at best. He can ask God...
It's no easier to believe in God than it is to believe in Santa Claus; the former is just more customary.
It's no easier to believe in God than it is to believe in Santa Claus; the former is just more customary.
If you wish, you can view the research work of these folks as asking God. The problem is, we have to try to figure out for ourselves what His answer is since He's been pretty close-mouthed in recent centuries.
I'll ask you what I asked someone in the other thread about this: Why is it that you think that just because you're ignorant about something that everyone is ignorant about something?
I remember laying on the nets beside the DASH hangar, hanging over the south China sea, on a tin can in 1967. In the dark, there were so many stars visible, as to be incomprehensible. The ocean waters, flowing past the ship, roiled to reveal a glowing phospohorescence, lighting sea creatures as we passed. It looked like neon lights, in the dark waters. It was a deeply moving experience.
I remember thinking of how it could not possibly have come from nothing, and I am still convinced. It is much easier to believe in God...
Who said it came from 'nothing'? Actually, it is much easier to believe the truth, but most people are innately resistent to acknowledging the truth for some reason. Do you want to know what the truth is?
"[e]ven though the false vacuum is decaying, the expansion outruns the decay and the total volume of false vacuum actually increases with time rather than decreases. Thus inflation does not end everywhere at once, but instead inflation ends in localized patches, in a succession that continues ad infinitum."
I never taught my kids there was a Santa Claus. I don't teach myths, as truth...
Ignorance is one thing, easily curable. Theory does not prove anything. it just gives thought a chance to roam!
I see no proof, just another man's thinking! Nothing new, here, move along...
I am searching for it, but there seems some theory to suggest that time doesnt actually exist. Nor does depth and the the universe is really only 2 dimensions and that it is the peculiarities of time/space caused by gravity taht makes our reality appear this way.
Time is just a dimension and God would surely not be constrained by it.
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