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Title: Another ‘settled science’ topic is not so settled after all – Big Bang theory questioned
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URL Source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/02/ ... ll-big-bang-theory-questioned/
Published: Feb 11, 2015
Author: Anthony Watts
Post Date: 2015-02-11 08:10:44 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 18405
Comments: 58

We’ve all heard of the claim of “settled science” when it comes to global warming/climate change, and we’ve all heard of the “Big Bang Theory”, and I’m not just talking about the popular TV show. The scientific theory goes all the way back to 1927.

This is an artist’s concept of the metric expansion of space, where space (including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe) is represented at each time by the circular sections. Note on the left the dramatic expansion (not to scale) occurring in the inflationary epoch, and at the center the expansion acceleration. The scheme is decorated with WMAP images on the left and with the representation of stars at the appropriate level of development. Credit: NASA

The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological model for the birth of the universe. It states that at some moment all of space was contained in a single point from which the Universe has been expanding ever since. Modern measurements place this moment at approximately 13.8 billion years ago, which is thus considered the age of the universe. After the initial expansion, the Universe cooled sufficiently to allow the formation of subatomic particles, and later simple atoms. Giant clouds of these primordial elements later coalesced through gravity to form stars and galaxies. The Big Bang theory does not provide any explanation for the initial conditions of the Universe; rather, it describes and explains the general evolution of the Universe going forward from that point on. (Source: Wikipedia) Now, it seems there’s a challenge to this ‘settled’ science, and a new quantum equation predicts the universe has no beginning. (Phys.org) —The universe may have existed forever, according to a new model that applies quantum correction terms to complement Einstein’s theory of general relativity. The model may also account for dark matter and dark energy, resolving multiple problems at once. The widely accepted age of the universe, as estimated by general relativity, is 13.8 billion years. In the beginning, everything in existence is thought to have occupied a single infinitely dense point, or singularity. Only after this point began to expand in a “Big Bang” did the universe officially begin.

Although the Big Bang singularity arises directly and unavoidably from the mathematics of general relativity, some scientists see it as problematic because the math can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity.

“The Big Bang singularity is the most serious problem of general relativity because the laws of physics appear to break down there,” Ahmed Farag Ali at Benha University and the Zewail City of Science and Technology, both in Egypt, told Phys.org.

Read more at: phys.org/news/2015-02-big-quantum-equation- universe.html#jCp (1 image)

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#1. To: sneakypete, rlk, willie green (#0)

You have to change your opinion again. Here is your new one.

My position remains the same.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-02-11   8:11:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)

You have to change your opinion again. Here is your new one.

You can't hang that one on me, dude.
The Big Bang happened long before my time.
Someone else must've done it.

"Some people march to a different drummer — and some people polka."

Willie Green  posted on  2015-02-11   9:41:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: A K A Stone (#0) (Edited)

The universe may have existed forever.....

Nothing has existed forever because time,by definition,begins at a certain instant,and nothing existed before time began. Time is measurable,so it has to have a starting point. This is more of an observation on how the human mind works than a scientific certainty. Humans love to define and measure things. It's what makes humans different from other sentient animals like welfare creatures that only concern themselves with "now".

Having said that,isn't the whole focus of this discussion "inside science",where a bunch of autistic geniuses are arguing over (for lack of a more appropriate term) "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin."?

It can neither be proven or shown to be false . Like other "religions" it is a theory that you either accept,reject,or say "who cares?" and move on.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   10:01:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A K A Stone (#1) (Edited)

Misleading article - an observation was discredited as having its data compromised - the theory of the big bang would have been confirmed if that observation was deemed valid. We are back to where we were before on the Big Bang being one theory (though widely held as the best one so far) of many.

Pericles  posted on  2015-02-11   10:02:09 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: A K A Stone (#1)

You have to change your opinion again.

Once again you are assuming facts not in evidence.

Here is your new one.

Thanks,but I will pass. I just don't care.

I am curious about it's effect on YOUR opinions,though. Are miracles affected by this new theory? What about virgin birth from a married woman?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   10:05:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Willie Green (#2)

The Big Bang happened long before my time.

I thought the "Big Bang" was when God impregnated the virgin wife of a mortal man so he could have a son.

Have I been wrong about this?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   10:07:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Pericles (#4)

We are back to where we were before on the Big Bang being one theory (though widely held as the best one so far) of many.

Some people just can't wrap their minds around the concept of a "theory".

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   10:10:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: sneakypete (#7)

Some people just can't wrap their minds around the concept of a "theory".

Yes, and morons think some theories that have been dis proven are science.

You believe in evolution and the tooth fairy don't you?

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-02-11   12:07:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: sneakypete (#3)

Nothing has existed forever because time,by definition,begins at a certain instant,and nothing existed before time began. Time is measurable,so it has to have a starting point. This is more of an observation on how the human mind works than a scientific certainty.

What is the definition of time?

Time can be measured? Really? Are we not, rather, measuring some physical phenonmenon, placing a numerical scale alongside of it, and calling the dance of this physical object in from of our arbitrarily drawn scale the "passage" of "time".

When a bicycle wheel with a card stuck in it clicks, is that time?

Is our heart beating out time? Or is our heart just beating, and call the count sequence "time".

The latter.

You're right: this is indeed an observation about how the human mind works.

We cannot "measure time". Rather, we can arbitrarily define the sequence of a mechanical process as "time". We can SAY we're measuring something other than the cyclical nature of the mechanical process, but that's just us asserting it. The hands of the clock are never pushed along by "time". Time doesn't actually EXIST. It's a description of a relationship of a physical thing to a physical thing, like "pi" or "i" or "e".

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   13:12:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: sneakypete (#6)

I thought the "Big Bang" was when God impregnated the virgin wife of a mortal man so he could have a son.

Have I been wrong about this?

Yes.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   13:12:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: A K A Stone (#8)

Yes, and morons think some theories that have been dis proven are science.

And other morons believe superstition is fact.

BTW,WHO has EVER claimed any dis-proven theories are science?

Other than you,that is.

You believe in evolution and the tooth fairy don't you?

Half-right. I believe evolution is the best and most likely explanation for how life has evolved (note the word "evolved"),but the tooth fairy is in the realm of miracles,and you are the one that believes in miracles,not me.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   14:42:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Vicomte13 (#9)

What is the definition of time?

Now you are going to get all "hippy-dippy mystical" on me? Even morons understand the concept of time.

Time can be measured? Really?

Yes,really. There was "then",and then there is "now". Time is the period between the two.

We cannot "measure time".

HorseHillary. We can,and we do. Maybe you can explain your concept for why you are neither late nor early to your cult leader when you show up at church on Tuesday for Mass?

Rather, we can arbitrarily define the sequence of a mechanical process as "time".

The mechanical process you are talking about is a tool/measuring stick,not the process.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   14:48:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Vicomte13 (#9)

We cannot "measure time". Rather, we can arbitrarily define the sequence of a mechanical process as "time". We can SAY we're measuring something other than the cyclical nature of the mechanical process, but that's just us asserting it. The hands of the clock are never pushed along by "time". Time doesn't actually EXIST. It's a description of a relationship of a physical thing to a physical thing, like "pi" or "i" or "e".

Gen 1:14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,

Job 38:32 Can you bring forth the constellations in their seasonsd or lead out the Beare with its cubs?

Psalm 104:19 19 The moon marks off the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.

Jeremiah 8:7 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, and the dove, the swift and the thrush observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.

Daniel 2:21 21 He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

The Holy Bible: New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1984), Ge 1:14–Ac 14:17.

“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen, from the grave.” John Chrysostom www.evidenceforJesusChrist.org

GarySpFC  posted on  2015-02-11   15:37:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: sneakypete (#12)

Now you are going to get all "hippy-dippy mystical" on me? Even morons understand the concept of time.

To the contrary: I am being very precise.

You are not measuring time. You are counting heartbeats, or whatever, between one thing and another. That is sequence. You are labelling sequence "time", and then treating that as a "real thing". It is not "time" driving your heartbeat, or the clock, or any other thing. Time is a mathematical relationship between things, like pi. The relationship between time and a mechanical sequence is the relationship between pi and a pie. A pie is a real thing. Pi doesn't exist in the real world as a thing: it's a relationship. Same thing with time.

A force hits you and has an impact. It's a real thing that is there. Same thing with matter. Space, though, is just the empty distance between the two things. It is not, itself, a "thing". It's the absence of a thing. Time is the relationship of things to the sequence of a thing chosen to be the yardstick. It's like space - there's nothing THERE "driving" anything. Entropy and friction are what mechanically wears things out. "Time" doesn't actually DO anything (because it doesn't exist).

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   15:38:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: GarySpFC (#13) (Edited)

Yes, and each of those things is a defined term: a "day" is the period of light. "Night" is the period of darkness. A "month" is a phase of the moon. A "season" is a period of agricultural activity, with the celestial play as the predictable background.

In no case is there an abstract time. "Time" is not an entity. It has no essence.

And no, the moon doesn't "know" when to go down. The author of the Psalm engaged in an anthropomorphization that treated an inanimate object as though it had a mind that it does not in fact have. If that idea were pressed one inch more, it would be idolatrous. The moon goes down in sequence because God set a physical law that binds it. The moon "knows" nothing at all.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   15:41:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: A K A Stone (#1)

It is very pleasant to change one's opinion and to learn new things.

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-11   15:48:45 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: sneakypete (#6)

No, Big Bang will be when you bang your thick skull and you see the light.

Just kidding.

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-11   15:52:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#18. To: Vicomte13 (#15)

In no case is there an abstract time. "Time" is not an entity. It has no essence.

Time is tied to mass and energy.

“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen, from the grave.” John Chrysostom www.evidenceforJesusChrist.org

GarySpFC  posted on  2015-02-11   15:53:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#19. To: A K A Stone (#8)

Yes, and morons think some theories that have been dis proven are science

Theories are made and disproved all the time. This is how science works.

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-11   15:54:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: sneakypete (#12)

 Even morons understand the concept of time

Not everyone is a moron

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-11   15:55:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: GarySpFC (#18)

Time is tied to mass and energy.

By our models, yes. Just like pi is tied to a pie. Mass and energy, and the pie, are real things. Time and pi are merely mathematical relationships, not real things.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   16:21:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: A Pole (#20) (Edited)

Not everyone is a moron

I guess I must be, because although I understand that the mathematical relationship that we call "time" "exists" - in the sense that we have labeled it - I do not believe that it has real substance or essence.

I suspect the same thing of gravity. I suspect that gravity is a surface effect of objects, and is not a real force-over-distance the way electromagnetism is.

I suspect that "gravitational lensing" that we think we see is in fact the electromagnetic redirection of polarized light.

But as a moron, I suppose I should keep my peace on such things because who cares what an idiot thinks?

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   16:26:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Vicomte13 (#14)

"Time" doesn't actually DO anything (because it doesn't exist).

Explain that to a Scuba diver running out of air.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   18:43:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#24. To: A Pole (#17)

No, Big Bang will be when you bang your thick skull and you see the light.

That's happened a few times,and I saw stars,not daylight.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   18:44:52 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#25. To: A Pole (#20)

Even morons understand the concept of time

Not everyone is a moron

I agree.

Now,how does what you wrote refute what I wrote?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   18:45:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#26. To: sneakypete (#3)

Nothing has existed forever because time,by definition,begins at a certain instant,and nothing existed before time began.

What if something created time?

Biff Tannen  posted on  2015-02-11   19:01:32 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#27. To: sneakypete (#23)

Explain that to a Scuba diver running out of air.

The scuba diver is not being affected by time. He is being affected by the lack of air.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   19:05:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#28. To: Biff Tannen (#26)

What if something created time?

Of course something created time. Movement.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   19:09:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#29. To: Vicomte13 (#27)

The scuba diver is not being affected by time. He is being affected by the lack of air.

His air isn't regulated by the time he spends breathing it?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   19:10:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#30. To: sneakypete (#28)

The way I see it, distance and time are properties of a physical realm. In a non-physical realm there wouldn't have to be either time or distance (space).

Biff Tannen  posted on  2015-02-11   19:17:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#31. To: sneakypete (#29)

His air isn't regulated by the time he spends breathing it?

No, because he "spends" nothing. There is no bank of time with a deciining balance sheet that he trades for other things.

There is a process - a whole series of processes, sequences and cycles, that are the biological reactions that sustain life. They require oxygen. When they have completed a given process, they require more oxygen. What drives the air depletion is the "fire" of biochemical reactions. "Time" is not driving anything. Time is a meter stick we could draw to divide up the processes into units of sequence, but it's the process of chemistry that gives rise to the need. What is being used up is not time. Air is being used up, and it's being used up by a process, which uses up the available oxygen in the air.

There's no "time" pressing anything forward. Time is what you decide to use as the yardstick to measure the depletion of the air. It's a reference, but neither a force nor an entity.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-11   20:30:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#32. To: Biff Tannen (#30)

The way I see it, distance and time are properties of a physical realm. In a non-physical realm there wouldn't have to be either time or distance (space).

Our timeline is linear. Gods timeline isn't a line but a circle. He is outside of time.

That is the way I see it.

A K A Stone  posted on  2015-02-11   20:35:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#33. To: Biff Tannen (#30)

In a non-physical realm there wouldn't have to be either time or distance (space).

You may be right,but I only live and think in a physical realm. Not really into the theoretical side of things.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   21:04:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#34. To: Vicomte13 (#31)

His air isn't regulated by the time he spends breathing it?

No, because he "spends" nothing. There is no bank of time with a deciining balance sheet that he trades for other things.

Isn't that just a 3 dollar way of saying "He doesn't need oxygen if he just quits breathing"?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-11   21:08:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#35. To: A K A Stone (#32)

Yes, outside of time. Able to enter it at any point. Somehow.

Biff Tannen  posted on  2015-02-11   21:43:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#36. To: sneakypete (#33)

Yes, there's plenty to try and figure out in the physical realm.

Biff Tannen  posted on  2015-02-11   21:45:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#37. To: Biff Tannen (#36)

Yes, there's plenty to try and figure out in the physical realm.

?

And not so much in the religious belief world? What about all those "miracles" by Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Muhammad?

Pridie.Nones  posted on  2015-02-11   21:53:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#38. To: Pridie.Nones (#37)

What about all those "miracles" by Gautama Buddha, Jesus Christ or Muhammad?

WHAT "miracles" did Buddha or Muhammad perform?

Liberator  posted on  2015-02-11   23:17:34 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#39. To: sneakypete (#33)

I only live and think in a physical realm.

What of the Dream State? Everything there seems real, and physical. People converse, laugh, love, touch, and even cry in their dreams.

Once I was so utterly convinced that I was dreaming that in a living room I purposely took the Yellow Pages that was conveniently on top of the end table next to couch, and began reading all the names from it. Sure enough, there were hundreds names. But...but...It was so real! I became bored, left the house (it was empty, had NO idea whose it was), and began walking down a street. BEAUTIFUL sunny morning, (no one outside but me). I was struck by how vivid and colorful all the tall flowers were, how green the grass and plants were, how the scenario were just so free and easy and serene. The details were exact and precise, 3D. It was bliss. A dream. (Hmmm, think I took Vitamin B-12, B-6 and Melatonin before bed.)

So were all that appeared in a dream like that, a "reality"? It mimicked the entire physical realm, caressed the senses of touch and sight. Never seen the place before. My point is, that at least one other "physical realm" exists beyond our "awakened state." The moment we pass on, many of us believe in yet another realm of consciousness.

Liberator  posted on  2015-02-12   0:12:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#40. To: sneakypete (#28)

Of course something created time. Movement.

There is something in science known as The Law of Cause and Effect. There is nothing in the Universe that doesn't have a cause behind its existence. As you go back, there can not be an infinite regression. You must eventually reach a very first cause which created the very first effect....OR "movement." (No, God is NOT a giant Timex Watch.)

Liberator  posted on  2015-02-12   0:25:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#41. To: sneakypete (#28)

Of course something created time. Movement.

And what created movement?

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-12   2:53:33 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#42. To: Liberator (#39)

I only live and think in a physical realm.

What of the Dream State?

Nothing in the Dream State is real other than the TIME you spend dreaming.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   7:25:50 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#43. To: A Pole (#41)

Of course something created time. Movement.

And what created movement?

Probably heat.

What created God?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   7:27:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#44. To: sneakypete (#42)

Nothing in the Dream State is real other than the TIME you spend dreaming.

That's not real, either internally to the dream or externally.

But what IS real is the biochemistry that generates the dream, along with that immaterial thing called the Spirit that is the essence of each of us.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-12   8:18:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#45. To: sneakypete (#43)

What created God?

Depends on how you define God.

If you define God as that which is omnipotent and omnipresent, then "God" is the Natural Law, and whatever imposed the Natural Law is "God's" god.

But if you define God as that which is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient, than "God's god" the imposer of the Natural Law, is intelligent, but what created God's god is a complete mystery.

However, if you define God as that which is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and eternal, the "eternal" part answers the question: nothing and no-one created God, because there was, is and will be no point at which God (as long as "God" is understood to mean what we've called "God's god" - the legislator of Natural Law) did not exist. It becomes a definitional thing. By defining God as eternal, the question becomes meaningless, I would say. (You would say that the question has merely been evaded, not rendered moot.)

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-12   8:25:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#46. To: sneakypete (#43)

What created God?

God is not a creature. He is the ultimate super-transcendent Source of everything.

Or are you saying that the Universe does not have the source or foundation? That it comes into being out of nothing on its own?

A strange nothing that is the source of all.

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-12   8:26:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#47. To: Vicomte13 (#44)

But what IS real is the biochemistry that generates the dream, along with that immaterial thing called the Spirit that is the essence of each of us.

Prove it,Bubba.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   10:35:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#48. To: Vicomte13 (#45)

What created God?

Depends on how you define God.

More Jesuit spin?

I asked YOU a simple question. How do YOU define God and prove he exists?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   10:36:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: A Pole (#46) (Edited)

God is not a creature. He is the ultimate super-transcendent Source of everything.

Uh,huh. Him and the Easter Bunny.

Or are you saying that the Universe does not have the source or foundation? That it comes into being out of nothing on its own?

Are you saying that God comes into being out of nothing on his own? You MUST be making that claim since you base your argument on "nothing comes about on it's own."

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   10:38:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#50. To: sneakypete (#49)

Are you saying that God comes into being out of nothing on his own?

God is not a being, but all beings come from Him. He makes nothingness too - the abyss or outer void where Satan dwells.

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-12   10:52:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: A Pole (#50)

God is not a being,

Then what is he,a bi-plane?

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   10:53:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: sneakypete (#51)

You believe in nothingness,don't you, where you will go after death?

A Pole  posted on  2015-02-12   12:00:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: sneakypete (#48)

More Jesuit spin?

I asked YOU a simple question. How do YOU define God and prove he exists?

For God's sake, please stop with the "Jesuit" stuff. I'm not a paid propagandist. I'm a man with an opinion. I wasn't even raised in the Church. It isn't as though I was "indoctrinated from the cradle".

I will answer your question this evening. The question is simple, but the answer to it is NOT simple, because it is the most important question in my whole freaking universe, and I have had to have many checks and balances to be sure, in my own skin, that my answer is RIGHT.

So, until later, peace.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-12   13:25:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#54. To: A K A Stone (#32)

Our timeline is linear. Gods timeline isn't a line but a circle. He is outside of time.

Time is a creation of God. C.S. Lewis explained it this way, "Draw a line on a napkin. The line represents time, with the napkin representing Christ. He is the Great 'I AM' and time is in Christ. He is present in the past, present, future, and outside of time."

“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen, from the grave.” John Chrysostom www.evidenceforJesusChrist.org

GarySpFC  posted on  2015-02-12   15:26:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: A Pole (#51) (Edited)

God is not a being,

2.13 ¸µÌÄ·Â, ·Ä¿Â f; ¸µ¹ÌÄ·Â, ·Ä¿Â f; ¸µῖ¿½a, ¿Å n: (derivatives of ¸µÌÂa ‘God,’ 12.1) the nature or state of being God—‘deity, divine nature, divine being.’ ¸µÌÄ·Â: ἐ½ ±ὐÄῷ º±Ä¿¹ºµῖ Àᾶ½ Äὸ À»®Áɼ± Äῆ ¸µÌÄ·Ä¿Â Ãɼ±Ä¹ºῶ ‘in him dwells all the fullness of divine nature in bodily form’ Col 2:9. ¸µ¹ÌÄ·Â: ἀ¯´¹¿Â ±ὐÄ¿ῦ ´Í½±¼¹Â º±ὶ ¸µ¹ÌÄ·Â ‘his eternal power and deity’ Ro 1:20. ¸µῖ¿½a: ½¿¼¯¶µ¹½ ÇÁÅÃῷ ἢ ἀÁ³ÍÁῳ … Äὸ ¸µῖ¿½ µἶ½±¹ ὅ¼¿¹¿½ ‘think … that the deity is like … gold or silver’ Ac 17:29. The expression ‘divine nature’ may be rendered in a number of languages as ‘just what God is like’ or ‘how God is’ or ‘what God is.’ In Ro 1:20 ‘deity’ may sometimes be expressed as ‘the fact that he is God’ or ‘… is truly God.’ In 2 Pe 1:4 ‘to share in the very being of God,’ one may speak of ‘to share in what God is like’ or ‘to become in a measure like God.’ It is important, of course, to avoid the implication that people can become completely God.

Louw, J. P., & Nida, E. A. (1996). Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament: based on semantic domains. New York: United Bible Societies.

“Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen, from the grave.” John Chrysostom www.evidenceforJesusChrist.org

GarySpFC  posted on  2015-02-12   15:38:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: Vicomte13 (#53)

The question is simple, but the answer to it is NOT simple, because it is the most important question in my whole freaking universe, and I have had to have many checks and balances to be sure, in my own skin, that my answer is RIGHT.

You should take that into consideration when demanding others "prove" that God doesn't exist.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-12   17:02:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#57. To: sneakypete (#56)

You should take that into consideration when demanding others "prove" that God doesn't exist.

You must be addressing somebody else.

I never, ever demand anybody "prove" God doesn't exist. I don't play logic games regarding God. Rather, I offer the proof that God DOES exist, and offer to discuss.

"Prove he DOESN'T exist" is not my form of argumentation. Never has been.

Vicomte13  posted on  2015-02-17   16:00:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#58. To: Vicomte13 (#57)

"Prove he DOESN'T exist" is not my form of argumentation. Never has been.

My apologies.

Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)

sneakypete  posted on  2015-02-17   20:15:40 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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