- "...have tended toward the idea that there's simply no end to mathematical complexity ~ and the only part of it that's any use is that little bit that conforms to this universe.
Fascinating...
Posted on 03/07/2008 4:40:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..
Romans 1:22-23 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Occasional occurrences of small amounts of order might show up at random. The vast amounts of order, complexity, and information that have existed for so long, that some people believe could have just happened is way beyond anything that is believable by chance.
Math is, as it turns out, a creation of the mind.
(Matthew 7:13) Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
(Matthew 7:14) But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
I think you mean the appearance of order. (Personally, I have no idea what light bulbs have to do with God.)
Suppose you had an immense grid and you randomly decided to place marbles in particular squares. At any given time, within this grid, there would be clearly defined letters, shapes, and even images. Of course, this does not mean that the grid, as a whole, is ordered. An honest academic should acknowledge this.
They are moving in the right direction even if they don't know it. Once the big bang theory was accepted as the most likely explanation for the creation of the universe a recognition of God as the designer is inevitable.
Look at naturally occuring fractals.
That’s all I’m gonna say about that
It has long been known that mathematics has nothing to do with the natural world. It is something, but descriptive it is not. Evolution is a descriptive science, which is to say it is not a science of laws like physics. There are different things going on here and they should not be lumped together.
Fascinating...
BTTT
Explaining a complex yet knowable system (the universe) with a more complex system that is off-limits for scientific study (God, or whoever) is not science. You can speculate about it all you want - and that is not bad - but until there is a way to test it, it is just an idea, not even close to a hypothesis.
This applies to everything, including the currently “accepted” scientific theory that all matter and energy that exists today ultimately arose from nothing.
Maybe, but it is also self-evident, meaning that it doesn't need the Supreme Court to rule when it is valid or not. But, none of it conforms to the universe, a strange thing when it is itself part of the universe. Maybe close enough for practical purposes we can impress ourselves with.
What he forgets is that science postulates singularity with no explanation of how IT arose.
Some of it’s close enough for government work.
Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. All we can do is look at what we can see and try to make sense of it. That's what we do and what would we do if we didn't do that?
thank goodness there are such smart people to show us dummies all the answers
Depends on what the meaning of "Bang" is.
Kidding aside, this persons kind of logic is akin to an atomic bomb going off in the desert resulting in the creation of a city.
Face the music, not only did all the matter in the universe spring out of nothing, but also all manner of organizing laws.
Science is not allowed to comment on what happened before the Bang 'cause if there is nothing, then there is no observation. Science is a handy tool to find our way around this creation.
Im getting weary of the convoluted, backward thinking of those who cant accept that there might be a God who is there.
Which is not any more sound that God creating everything from nothing.
So why do scientists mock the idea that a creator created everything from nothing and then with a straight face, expect us to believe that everything arose from nothing all on its own?
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