Original sin is responsible for many terrible things.
That is the result of thousands of generations of ex post facto sins.
Posted on 04/11/2016 6:26:44 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Back in 2008, Time Magazine interviewed Neil de Grasse Tyson, and asked him, “What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?” His answer was indeed a very good, true, and astounding fact about the Universe: that all the complex atoms that make up everything we know owe their origins to ancient, exploded stars, dating back billions of years. It’s a great fact, and it’s definitely on the short list of the most remarkable things we’ve learned about the Universe. But if I were to choose the single most astounding fact about the Universe, I’d want you to consider something else: something far more fundamental and profound. Consider that the Universe — with everything in it the way it is — didn’t have to be this way. It didn’t have to even be close. We could have had a Universe without trees, without mountains, without our skies and without oceans. We could have had a Universe without planets like Earth, or planets at all. We could have even had a Universe where nothing that we know of — no particles, forces or interactions — exists as it does right now.
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That the abstract endeavor of mathematics can explain/model the universe.
Psalm 8:3 - “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet...”
On the back of a giant turtle.
That one could look upon it’s majesty and not recognize the hand of God.
Ping
That’s hot...
The Universal Constants; if you know them, you know there is a God.
The most astounding thing about the universe is that it is just a petri dish to GOD
Monty Python Universe Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4uCWtQE24
Song lyrics
http://www.montypython.net/scripts/galaxy.php
I don’t understand the question.
That some humans believe they control earth’s climate
It was created by GOD!!!!
That it suddenly came into existence from nowhere and nothing - or that it’s existed forever without beginning.....
The reciprocal of the fine structure constant!
This guy is a world renowned physicist and he’s geeking out about that?
How about electrons that disappear and reappear in higher energy states when photons hit them?
How about quantum entanglement?
How about the fact that most of the mass of the Universe is unaccounted for.
How about the fact you can get a 118 atom molecule to behave like its a wave, and not a particle?
How did he get his job?
Why? Because it shouldn't be visible, not like that. That image should be a fog or completely black, nothing in between. To see that amount of detail, that amount of fine structure, those beautiful delicate rotating pinwheels, to see galaxies billions of light years away across almost an entire universe is absurd. It is more mathematically improbable than hitting the Power Ball Jackpot lottery five times in a row. That mind-blowing image is impossible without a super-finely tuned matter density gradient and alpha opacity function that is absolutely perfect.
The UDF is one of the many wildly improbable aspects of the physical Universe. It is unique in that it does not fall prey to a rebuttal based on the Anthropic Principle. (I believe that AP is the last, desperate, refuge of the cornered atheist.)
See the YouTube video The Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D by Deep Astronomy. (Or just look out your window.)
God designed the universe very carefully because I think that He wants us to marvel at the sheer majesty of His creation and see what He hath wrought. He wants us to see it. And in doing so we cannot help but be forever humbled by it.
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of His hands. (Ps 19:1)
Their loss!
That the universe is expanding, because if it is expanding, what is it expanding into?
I don't understand where he gets that. Physicists don't really know what the pre-Big Bang universe consisted of, what state it existed in or what caused it to go Big Bang. To my mind Occam's Razor says that what the universe is is the only thing it could be.
Original sin is responsible for many terrible things.
That is the result of thousands of generations of ex post facto sins.
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