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He thinks physics proves Christianity
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| Jun. 10, 2007
| Bryan Appleyard
Posted on 06/12/2007 8:29:09 AM PDT by mjp
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Physics proved the truths of Eastern religions three decades ago (The Tao of Physics), so why not Christianity, too? ;)You are ironic, but I assume that is because physics, indeed all the sciences, proves nothing. Science is based on inductive reasoning, and inductive reasoning is never a proof because a scientist can never provide complete enumeration of the data. At best, science provides probability.
So a little irony and sarcasm are warranted. A sense of humor is a good defense against such claims of proof.
To: Search4Truth
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posted on
06/12/2007 1:34:57 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the Treaty)
To: newguy357
Dang!!!
Talkin’ with the wrong orifice again.
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posted on
06/12/2007 2:40:55 PM PDT
by
toast
To: mjp
In the beginng God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void...
Someone please draw for me a formless void.
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posted on
06/12/2007 2:48:28 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(Three million years is enough! Stop cyclical climate change now!)
To: mjp
I can understand how one could make a connection between physics and spirituality.
I do not see how one can claim that physics proves Christianity or any other specific religion.
To: mjp
LOL! Tipler gets a little loonier (and more dogmatically so) every year. At the same time he has secularists smiling indulgently and slowly backing away, he’s got to be pissing off believers (at least those who scratch the surface) with his assertions that Divine Miracles are just parlor tricks with particle beams!
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posted on
06/12/2007 3:51:06 PM PDT
by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
To: Excellence
Someone please draw for me a formless void.It took a little doing. But I think I finally got it. It's right below.
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:45:38 PM PDT
by
Search4Truth
(Hosea 4:6 warns, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:...)
To: Search4Truth
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posted on
06/12/2007 4:55:32 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(Three million years is enough! Stop cyclical climate change now!)
To: Excellence
Where is the earth?Orbiting the Sun.
Is this a quiz?
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posted on
06/12/2007 5:00:50 PM PDT
by
Search4Truth
(Hosea 4:6 warns, My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:...)
To: Search4Truth
In the beginng God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form and void...
Someone please draw for me a formless void.
We’re right back where we started.
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posted on
06/12/2007 5:11:17 PM PDT
by
Excellence
(Three million years is enough! Stop cyclical climate change now!)
To: mjp
>> Physicists today, he says, are not supposed to believe in God. But he does, ...
The statement is misleading, and reinforced by the conjunction could be interpreted as:
“Physicists are supposed to disbelieve in God.”
To: sirchtruth
God requests a childlike faith in HIM, that all things are possible through Jesus Christ. NOT a childlike faith in the KING JAMES VERSION Bible (which didn’t exist in Jesus’s time because it was still being written).
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06/12/2007 8:20:20 PM PDT
by
Clock King
(Bring the noise!)
To: Clock King
NOT a childlike faith in the KING JAMES VERSION Bible (which didnt exist in Jesuss time because it was still being written).Alright. I get what you're insinuating. However, minus the "King's English" the TKJ version might be one of the more accuratley translated accounts we have.
What about the original version? Would you still not believe in the storied account of Genesis from the Hebrew or Greek Torah? I beleive Jesus most likely quoted from the Septuagint.
Let me make a serious point here. In all the versions of the bible, I think there is less than 2% error in copying, and those mistakes are minor misspellings, typos, and general word misusage. Trivial mistakes that do not take away from the main context of the message or the original copy. You will not find another book in the history of the world that has so many copies and has been so correctly translated or copied intact!
In even my limited years of studying the book, I will tell you the minute I start to not take the stories literally I find is the bane of misguided thought and direction toward The Truth. (Define "The Truth")
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posted on
06/13/2007 4:06:12 AM PDT
by
sirchtruth
(No one has the RIGHT not to be offended...)
To: Ro_Thunder
God gave the doctor the talent, and the drive to heal others. I pray about being sick, and go to the doctor when/if I must. Modern medicine is not a talent given by God. It takes years of hard work and education to be a medical doctor. And all of that learning, and all of the doctor's tools, are the product of science and engineering which includes evolution, not a simple talent.
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posted on
06/13/2007 6:03:29 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: wizr
Why do you think the peoples of the Middle East did not eat pork? Until recently, if pork was not fully cooked, you could die from eating it. The Bible helped to save lives. The Ten Commandments are just common sense. No, pork was considered spiritually unclean. Where in the Bible, or the Torah, does it say that it can be made spiritually clean by cooking? God said don't eat it so you don't eat it.
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posted on
06/13/2007 6:05:29 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: mjp
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posted on
06/13/2007 6:13:07 AM PDT
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: doc30
To me, the Bible is a God given manual for our lives. Not all things are spelled out. In fact, we must search it to try and understand what God is saying to us.
I would say that people had died from eating pork. Therefore, it was clearly noted not to eat of it.
I am not a scholar. I just know that there are reasons for all of God’s Word. We are to use it to safety walk through this treacherous world.
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posted on
06/13/2007 7:21:23 AM PDT
by
wizr
(Freedom ain't free.. Common sense ain't common,. Read Jeremiah, Chapters 18 & 19)
To: mjp
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posted on
06/16/2007 2:36:25 PM PDT
by
mjp
(Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck.)
To: mjp
Title: Feynman-Weinberg Quantum Gravity and the Extended Standard Model as a Theory of Everything
(Submitted on 24 Apr 2007)
Abstract: I argue that the (extended) Standard Model (SM) of particle physics and the renormalizable Feynman-Weinberg theory of quantum gravity comprise a theory of everything. I show that imposing the appropriate cosmological boundary conditions make the theory finite. The infinities that are normally renormalized away and the series divergence infinities are both eliminated by the same mechanism. Furthermore, this theory can resolve the horizon, flatness, and isotropy problems of cosmology. Joint mathematical consistency naturally yields a scale-free, Gaussian, adiabatic perturbation spectrum, and more matter than antimatter. I show that mathematical consistency of the theory requires the universe to begin at an initial singularity with a pure $SU(2)_L$ gauge field. I show that quantum mechanics requires this field to have a Planckian spectrum whatever its temperature. If this field has managed to survive thermalization to the present day, then it would be the CMBR. If so, then we would have a natural explanation for the dark matter and the dark energy. I show that isotropic ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic rays are explained if the CMBR is a pure $SU(2)_L$ gauge field. The $SU(2)_L$ nature of the CMBR may have been seen in the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect. I propose several simple experiments to test the hypothesis.
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posted on
06/22/2007 2:26:12 PM PDT
by
mjp
(Live & let live. I don't want to live in Mexico, Marxico, or Muslimico. Statism & high taxes suck.)
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