Posted on 08/24/2022 2:12:24 AM PDT by LibWhacker
Thank you for the link.
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:1
And it’s all ours, except Europa.
And then what’s beyond that and then beyond that and beyond that?
Like a comedian said, “You think you are living in the United States??! You are living on a f’n rock hurtling through infinite space!! ZOOM OUT!!!”
As Einstein himself once said when asked a similar question…
God.
That is a rather presumptive assumption.
I would assume that any intelligence would evolve to take advantage of or to live in the environment in which they live.
Consider the whales and dolphins. We humans are just beginning to understand their intelligence. Not because either we or they are not intelligent enough but because our intellects evolved in such different environments.
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CC
Millyways, the restaurant at the End of the Universe.
Producing numbers to delineate that which is totally unknown is just foolish.
When considering the universe, the only value is infinity
And the space probes we launched in the 70’s have traveled about 18 light hours; not even a light day yet, a fraction of a light year.
Observe all the stuff we can see out there and consider, the God of Israel made it by speaking the word, and is infinitely bigger than that.
If it’s not observable we cannot know.
One of the great projects of the last decade or so is the rejection of the Big Bang and all of its implications by people who assert there is no God. This is because the very notion of a “beginning” is one of the odd and very controversial aspects of the Genesis story. The discovery of the Big Bang and a definite point in time for this beginning has been fodder for analysis that shows show intelligence in the creation of the universe.
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries Revealing the Mind Behind the Universe - Steven Meyer
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/41088454-the-return-of-the-god-hypothesis
In “The Return of the God Hypothesis,” Steven Meyer asserts an analysis that explains the impossibility of the coincidence of parameters and events that must have all occurred at the very inception of time that makes life/existence possible.
One of the arguments against this insane level of coincidence is that a vast number of Universes exist that these values are different and we just happen to be on the one lucky one. (Not your Hollywood version of the Multiverse where each multiverse has life) And when this explanation was needed to argue against God, it became a project to inject this idea into Pop Culture.
The “revelation” of issues with the Big Bang that has recently been in vogue may or may not be another front being opened in this battle to sway the hearts and minds of populations that have begun to question the Darwinist/Atheist viewpoint. Most of this debate is above the heads of 97% of the general public, and while the Scientists who are expressing these doubts solely because of digitally enhanced (manipulated) imagery are portrayed as heretics, their speculations are breathlessly reported as if fact. And, the people doing the reporting have little or no basis to understand even what they are being told so they do like they have done for other complex topics, just go with what they are told.
Science moves forward through heavy questioning. SO, these questions need to be addressed and the ideas and suppositions proposed need to be examined. This is the way. But, we also must understand that there are agendas warping this pursuit that have civilizational implications, and this needs to be taken into account at the same time.
Of course not.
What is your evidence for that?
My lost car keys?
The observable Universe is a bubble centered on the EarthAnd not just the puny Solar System, either!
Note it does not say the Earth is at the center of the universe. It says, “The observable Universe is a bubble centered on the Earth;” in other words, the Earth is at the center of what we can see. It’s like we’re in a forest and can see 40 yards in all directions. That would not mean we were in the center of the forest, only that we were in the center of the observable forest. Furthermore, everyone in the universe sees the same thing; he may think he’s at the center of the universe but he’s only at the center of what he can see.
The Catholic Church hierarchy is a conglomeration of ignorant priestly snobs who lack the ability to trash their ancient beliefs and accept modern truth
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