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Topic: Creation of the Universe Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 00:04 |
Originally posted by Maju
You can't prove a negative: you can't prove that the spaghetti monster doesn't exist. It's up to the promoters of the theist hypothesis to prove that God exists, not the opposite, that's how the scientific method works. |
Exactly, religious people just further prove what fools they are when they use this argument. Its their job to prove god exists and not someone elses job to prove he doesnt. If we had to prove negatives science would never go anywhere! We would have to study things simply to prove we are not figments in an imgination or that godzilla is not real.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 02:54 |
Originally posted by Maju
You can't prove a negative: you can't prove that the spaghetti monster doesn't exist. It's up to the promoters of the theist hypothesis to prove that God exists, not the opposite, that's how the scientific method works. |
I can tell you one thing, I've studied mathematics, engineering and many sciences to university level, science is nearly as absurb as religion in trying to explain how the world works. To start with science uses mathematics as tools, mathematics is basically a set of axioms. Just to remind you this statement "God exists" is pretty similar to saying "0 < 1". Both are axioms, we just assume 0 < 1 is logical and in fact as perceive by the human senses and instincts, 0 < 1 is perfectly logical and right. But our senses and instinct are simply boundaries, what lies beyond those boundaries. Mathematics teaches us a lot of boundaries (limits) within which a law applies. I'm very sceptical about science, it is very limited just as much as religion, and most high profile scientitists before they die come to nearly the same conclusion.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 02:58 |

I want you all to examine this ladybird (I couldn't find the specimen I wanted so this would do). Then comment about it in a scientific (mathematical) or religious POV as according to your belief.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 05:11 |
Originally posted by azimuth
Originally posted by Aeolus
Originally posted by mord
Science, imo, tries to understand and explain how things work.
Religion, imo, tries to explain and understand why things work.
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Not entirely true!
Science answers both "How" and "Why" questions.
Take for example the moving of planets. Science informs us how and why planets are moving this way.
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i think they Why answer that the science do answer isn't like the one that the religion answers, the science do explain how somethings works and why it acts in this certain way, But doesn't explain why it is there and why its not acting in a different way.
i guess that what mord meant.
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If by saying "why it is there" you mean something like a "purpose" for being there, its somehow true that science doesnt address the question of what is the purpose of doing something because there is no reason to think there is any purpose in doing so. To ask what the purpose of something is, this suppose there is a purpose.
In the meantime, in the sense of "why" in which it is a request for explanation (but not purpose) science clearly does answer "why" questions as well as "how" questions. Infact that is what theoretical science is doing. It is about finding explanations for why what we observe occurs as it does.
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A mathematician is a person who thinks that if there are supposed to be three people in a room, but five come out, then two more must enter the room in order for it to be empty.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 06:29 |
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl

I want you all to examine this ladybird (I couldn't find the
specimen I wanted so this would do). Then comment about it in a
scientific (mathematical) or religious POV as according
to your belief. |
It is God.
(Just like you and me: I'm Pantheist).
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 08:03 |
Originally posted by Anujkhamar
science has not disproven god yet, nor does any scientist even try to.
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You can't disprove God. That's why the concept is empirically useless.
You should note that science has not disproven any religion or religious belief whatsoever. It has not disproven the existence of Isis, or Thor, or Vishnu, or......
There is therefore no reason to suppose any religion true.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 08:16 |
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl
I can tell you one thing, I've studied mathematics, engineering and many sciences to university level, science is nearly as absurb as religion in trying to explain how the world works. To start with science uses mathematics as tools, mathematics is basically a set of axioms. Just to remind you this statement "God exists" is pretty similar to saying "0 < 1". Both are axioms, we just assume 0 < 1 is logical and in fact as perceive by the human senses and instincts, 0 < 1 is perfectly logical and right. But our senses and instinct are simply boundaries, what lies beyond those boundaries.
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'0<1' is not an axiom. It follows from the definition of '0' and '1' and '<'. It is a tautology.
'God exists' is an axiom - at least it can be taken as one - because it does not follow from the definition of 'God' and 'exists'.
If 'God exists' is not taken as axiomatic it is not provable. Even if it is taken as an axiom in a logical system, there is no reason to suppose that that logical system applies to the universe.
You cannot derive conclusions about the universe by logical deduction. You can derive hypotheses that way, but the applicability ('truth') of the hypotheses can only be demonstrated by observing experiments.
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Mathematics teaches us a lot of boundaries (limits) within which a law applies. I'm very sceptical about science, it is very limited just as much as religion, and most high profile scientitists before they die come to nearly the same conclusion.
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All scientists are sceptical about science. That's what makes them scientists. What they are not sceptical about is scepticism.
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The best explanation that I've ever heard about the way the universe is, is that if the universe was any other way, we probably wouldn't be here to ask questions about it. Scientists and philosophers alike have been unable to remove the possibility that there are an infinity of universes out there, each one with their own rules. We just happen to be in the one universe, where the rules are the way they are and where we are able to exist and observe it.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 10:08 |
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Decebal, have you heard about string-theory? It's basicly the samething like you said, other dimensions, or universes that have different rules to our own on how things work. I wish I could remember the name of a movie I saw in science class about string theory.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 10:20 |
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl

I want you all to examine this ladybird (I couldn't find the specimen I wanted so this would do). Then comment about it in a scientific (mathematical) or religious POV as according to your belief.
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The Incest is beautiful.Though at my home we used to have the same insect with a different colouring.Red background n black spots.
N we as kids used to call it 'Pass-Fail".U catch n put it on the back of ur hand.Then u say pass n fail.If the ladybird flies when u r saying pass u would pass in the upcoming school exams n if the insect flies when u r saying fail .
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 11:54 |
Originally posted by SearchAndDestroy
Decebal, have you heard about string-theory? It's basicly the samething like you said, other dimensions, or universes that have different rules to our own on how things work. I wish I could remember the name of a movie I saw in science class about string theory. |
Yes, I have heard about the string theory. Basically it states that all quarks are composed of meshed "super-strings". Quarks are the basic components that build up atomic particles such as protons and neutrons (an electron is a quark as well), as well as unstable particles such as mesons, bosons, etc. I'm not going to go into a lecture about sub-atomic particles, but suffice to say that by observing high speed colisions between subatomic particles, scientists have determined that super-strings have to have more than 4 dimensions, possibly as many as 10. So this is one way to have parralel universes: if the basic building blocks of our universe have more dimensions than our universe, it follows that you could have several universes built out of the same blocks. Depending on the number of total dimensions, and which dimensions make up each universe, events in a parralel universe may or may not interfere with our own universe.
Another way to have parralel universes stems from the fact that our universe is not straight, but rather curved. Imagine the surface of the Earth: if you go in a straight line, you will eventually arrive at your starting point. The surface of the Earth has no boundaries but it's finite. In the same way, our universe has no boundaries, but it's also finite. In theory, you could travel in a straight line across the universe and arrive at your starting point. One way that I visualise the universe is like a giant ball which contains everything inside, and where you can only travel via very slightly curved lines. Of course the analogy is imperfect, but it helps you realize that there may be empty "space" outside of our universe. I put space in quotations marks, because space is either a property of our universe or a construct of the human mind, but we have no better term for that somewhere which does not have any dimensions and which exists outside of our universe. Anyway, in theory, you could have an infinity of universes outside of our own existing in this "space". Just imagine billions of self-contained bubbles, with no way of interfering with each other, and each with their own rules. For example, gravity as we know it, may be unknown as a force in another universe: that universe would be extremely different from our own.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 12:40 |
Originally posted by katulakatula
Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl

I want you all to examine this ladybird (I couldn't find the specimen I wanted so this would do). Then comment about it in a scientific (mathematical) or religious POV as according to your belief.
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The Incest is beautiful. |
lol, I know what you mean but your slight mispelling makes a totally different word that...means something very different.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 13:24 |
Originally posted by Maju
You can't prove a negative: you can't prove that the spaghetti monster doesn't exist. |
But can prove he does exist.
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 16:40 |
Originally posted by Decebal
Originally posted by SearchAndDestroy
Decebal, have you heard
about string-theory? It's basicly the samething like you said, other
dimensions, or universes that have different rules to our own on how
things work. I wish I could remember the name of a movie I saw in
science class about string theory. |
Yes, I have heard about the string theory. Basically it states that
all quarks are composed of meshed "super-strings". Quarks are the basic
components that build up atomic particles such as protons and neutrons
(an electron is a quark as well), as well as unstable particles such as
mesons, bosons, etc. I'm not going to go into a lecture about
sub-atomic particles, but suffice to say that by observing high speed
colisions between subatomic particles, scientists have determined that
super-strings have to have more than 4 dimensions, possibly as many as
10. So this is one way to have parralel universes: if the basic
building blocks of our universe have more dimensions than our universe,
it follows that you could have several universes built out of the same
blocks. Depending on the number of total dimensions, and which
dimensions make up each universe, events in a
parralel universe may or may not interfere with our own universe.
Another way to have parralel universes stems from the fact that our
universe is not straight, but rather curved. Imagine the surface of the
Earth: if you go in a straight line, you will eventually arrive at
your starting point. The surface of the Earth has no boundaries but
it's finite. In the same way, our universe has no boundaries, but it's
also finite. In theory, you could travel in a straight line across the
universe and arrive at your starting point. One way that I visualise
the universe is like a giant ball which contains everything inside, and
where you can only travel via very slightly curved lines. Of course the
analogy is imperfect, but it helps you realize that there may be empty
"space" outside of our universe. I put space in quotations marks,
because space is either a property of our universe or a construct of
the human mind, but we have no better term for that somewhere which
does not have any dimensions and which exists outside of our universe.
Anyway, in theory, you could have an infinity of universes outside of
our own existing in this "space". Just imagine billions of
self-contained bubbles, with no way of interfering with each other, and
each with their own rules. For example, gravity as we know it, may be
unknown as a force in another universe: that universe would be
extremely different from our own. |
nice explanation there... I have also read about 3 months ago an
article concerning this but with a little twist. The author was a
famous physicist who also claimed that if there is an "infinite" amout
of these bubbles then there is also an infinite chance that there are
infinite earths... with infinite Decebals, Tobodai's, Vulkan02's etc...
doing the exact same thing we are doing up to the moment I finish with
this post
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In that case, I feel bad for the clones of us who are trying to type this out right now in the dimension that has no gravity... Must be hard on them, or err... us?
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Posted: 07-Oct-2005 at 20:48 |
14 new Pastafarians ready to spread the new faith!
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Posted: 08-Oct-2005 at 06:29 |
The Incest is beautiful.[/QUOTE]
lol, I know what you mean but your slight mispelling makes a totally different word that...means something very different.
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Posted: 08-Oct-2005 at 14:12 |
Originally posted by Aeolus
Originally posted by azimuth
Science, imo, tries to understand and explain how things work.
Religion, imo, tries to explain and understand why things work.
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If by saying "why it is there" you mean something like a "purpose" for
being there, its somehow true that science doesnt address the question
of what is the purpose of doing something because there is no reason to
think there is any purpose in doing so. To ask what the purpose of
something is,this suppose there is a purpose.
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you guys are a gasss, this tickled my fancy, and the ladybird incest too.
having observed this whole thread, the quality of contribution is high, a
nice mix of intellect, wit-wise and knowledge-wise too.
here's my contribution, with an appeal to accuracy in order to avoid
word-play-drama-tragedies:
reasons are the result when we look back in time, exploring reasons
for how the world works and even why. science is good at this, since it is
studying objects, and we can repeat experiments, and objects generally
behave (except when we go into infinitessimals and multidimensions)
purpose is the result when we look forward in time, exploring
reasons for how (read fatalistic) or why the world works. science is only
so good at this when regarding objects since they are generally well-
behaved, etc.
now
what interests me, is that historians purport to study history, ie what has
happened, and are hence backward looking, when most of history is
dictated by people looking forwards, as we are now.
and to conclude with something precise and yet aimed at your subjective
experience, with a little more accuracy than concerns about creator/god:
what is the only event you can be certain of in the future, which when it
occurs, you will not be able to verify?
(and if you know, talk around it, so that people can get a chance to guess,
contribute etc) reasons
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what is the equivalent of the study of history, future-wise?
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Posted: 13-Nov-2005 at 15:57 |
Originally posted by gcle2003
Originally posted by Anujkhamar
science has not disproven god yet, nor does any scientist even try to.
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You can't disprove God. That's why the concept is empirically useless.
You should note that science has not disproven any religion or religious belief whatsoever. It has not disproven the existence of Isis, or Thor, or Vishnu, or......
There is therefore no reason to suppose any religion true.
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Or that means there is no reason to belive any religion false. but someone has to be wrong. ok everyone but one religion has to be wrong. also the fight is not science and religion because science has not proved Evolution at all.
Does this sound logical?:
Fosils date rocks and Rocks date fosils therefore we know the earth is 4 billion years old.
I debate so I know what logic is (3 hour class every monday) that is not logic.
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Evolution is dead they just forgot to bury the body.
Logic is the best kind of evedence, science is only second best.
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Ever heard of radiocarbondating?
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