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18th July 2007, 09:06 | #483 |
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From what I understand "first principals" are not always something people are consciously aware of. Typically they're fundamental assumptions. You can tell when someone is talking about a fundamental assumption when they say something like "it's obvious" or "obviously".
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7th February 2008, 11:12 | #484 |
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Hands up who remembers our good friend Pastor Ted Haggard of the New Life Church?
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7th February 2008, 11:36 | #485 | |
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not I , was he a business associate of yours?
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7th February 2008, 11:47 | #486 |
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As the leader of a rich Bible Belt megachurch he features prominently in Dawkins's "The Root of All Evil" documentary on organised religion.
Clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBC5L6cyq2Y He then got outed for having P-fuelled sex with gay prostitutes. |
7th February 2008, 13:55 | #487 | |
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One might even say it... evolves. ... I'll get my coat. |
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8th February 2008, 15:39 | #488 |
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Science is very young, its slightly foolish to predict its progress by looking at its past. Its like saying "10 years ago this man was half the size! In another ten years he'll be twice as big as he is now!".
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8th February 2008, 16:12 | #490 |
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25th February 2008, 23:10 | #491 |
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I have started to read the Divinity Code by Ian Wishart. There are some LOL moments so far. I'm about halfway through and he keeps dealing "fatal blows" to evolution and other religions. I'm yet to find a good argument that’s not LOL. It seems just as much a Christian flag waving book rather than a straight out God v Evolution.
He says that Hinduism, Buddhism and the New Age Movement crumble under scientific attack. He uses the scientific theory that the universe is expanding to out right dismiss these religions. I burst out laughing. Apart from the fact that his argument doesn't make sense it’s laughable that he uses a scientific theory with a much shakier grounding than evolution. |
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Wishart is a fundy Xian with the scientific miseducation to go with it. |
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26th February 2008, 01:47 | #494 | |
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26th February 2008, 12:26 | #497 |
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I would say 'expanding universe' is the poor choice of words. When we look at the light coming from other galaxies, it's all doppler shifted toward the red end of the spectrum, so the expanding universe is a pretty solid experimental fact.
Taking this fact and tracing time backwards to infer that the universe was once contained in a single point is probably 'shakier' but there's also some evidence to support it, the presence of a uniform background radiation at 4 Kelvin for example. |
26th February 2008, 12:29 | #498 |
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Not that this detracts from your main argument at all
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26th February 2008, 13:41 | #499 |
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Yeah, that's what I was getting at. Evolution *is* hard to "point at", but the expanding universe is something that anyone with a telescope and access to a spectrometer can demonstrate.
That the universe is expanding is the only explanation we've yet found for the phenomena we observe. I'm no scientist but I'd say the expanding universe theory is just as solid and provable as evolution. |
26th February 2008, 13:59 | #500 |
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Science is not an absolute.
The problem when comparing science to religion is that in most cases, religion has never grown to include new knowledge, new historical understanding or updated ability to acquire knowledge. So when someone says "Science doesn't have all the answers" - quite right, but science has a hell of a lot more answers now than it did 200 years ago and it'll have a hell of a lot more in 200 years because it's constantly changing. Religion, specifically say Christianity, has had the same basis for thousands of years. That basis? Government through fear and revenue collection. |
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I don't understand how they even theorise that space is expanding, surely the universe is infinite and has no furthest point? I can't grasp it being considered a container of sorts (with a boundary). If it is a container which is expanding then this creates another problem; what is the container contained within? So many questions, surely someone can clone Einstein back to life already??? they have his brain in a jar dont they or some of his body so they have the cells ffs...do it! |
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26th February 2008, 15:08 | #502 | |
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The 'container' is infinite. An expanding universe means that our clumps of matter are getting further away from the other clumps. Cloning won't bring back Einstein. Besides, Stephen Hawking isn't smart enough for you? |
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26th February 2008, 15:23 | #504 |
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He has shown computers cannot replicate the human voice convincingly
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26th February 2008, 17:02 | #505 | |
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An analogy I've often found useful is that of the chocolate-chip muffin in an oven - as it rises, the muffin does not acquire any new mass, but every chocolate chip gets further away from every other chocolate chip. Muffin = universe Chocolate chips = planets, stars, galaxies |
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26th February 2008, 17:19 | #506 | |
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Another one not many religious people tend to appreciate. |
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26th February 2008, 18:15 | #507 | |
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eg: the distance between the chocolate muffin and my mouth is decreasing. and the distance between earth and that comet that's coming towards us is also decreasing.
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26th February 2008, 18:42 | #508 | |
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Actually, that's a neat little analogy |
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26th February 2008, 21:12 | #510 | |
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but i get my science from wikipedia: space growing ... growing
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26th February 2008, 22:46 | #511 |
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Good to see some intelligent comments. No, I'm not being patronising.
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26th February 2008, 22:55 | #512 |
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27th February 2008, 00:46 | #513 |
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