Posted on 07/27/2022 7:49:45 AM PDT by Borges
James Lovelock, the creator of the Gaia hypothesis, has died on his 103rd birthday. The climate scientist died at home on Tuesday surrounded by loved ones, his family said.
Lovelock, who was one of the UK’s most respected independent scientists, had been in good health until six months ago, when he had a bad fall.
Known as something of a maverick, he had been dispensing predictions from his one-man laboratory since the mid-1960s, and in his old age he continued to work.
His Gaia hypothesis posits that life on Earth is a self-regulating community of organisms interacting with each other and their surroundings. He said two years ago that the biosphere was in the last 1% of its life.
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Lovelock: God is dead.
Lovelock is dead: God................
His type of science fit better in the 16th century. It’s more magic than anything else.
At least now he can test his hypothesis.
Maybe he was speaking more for his personal biosphere
The universe itself is magic.
There is no rational explanation for something being created out of nothing.
He’s standing before God, not Gaia.
As an engineer I am big on serious scientific analysis, but sometimes that means we cannot figure out origin. Scientifically it makes no sense to call the Big Bang the “beginning”. It implies something else in another form existed before. So it cannot be the beginning and it’s not possible to know it.
There is a lot we don’t know.
Arthur C. Clarke had a wonderful famous quote:
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Magic is good—it tells us we have much more to learn.
I kind of like that theory, from a few years ago, that the universe is just a projection. We’re in God’s sim, a la “Jumanji”.
True. But that won’t stop the materialists from inventing more unfalsifiable hypotheses. Modern cosmology is basically theology. Multiverse is like saying God did it.
Happy birthday Jimmy!
But a lot of nothing has been created out of something.
He was quite right about his own personal biosphere. Then again predicting at age 100 that you will soon be dead is a pretty safe prediction.
Hippy-dippy.
He certainly had enough time to prepare.
‘So it cannot be the beginning and it’s not possible to know it.’
au contraire; for millenia, mankind of all stripes have stated with absolute certitude that various super pixies have created the universe and all that is in it...
There is no rational explanation for something being created out of nothing.
It's not the case that there was 'nothing' to being with. It's that there was no energy to enable matter to form on the material plane.
Once the energy was supplied... everything gave off a vibration and 'existed'. As proof, we already know that if you stop any matter from 'vibrating' it (would) not exist. I say (would) due to the fact we have not yet succeeded in bringing any object to absolute zero.
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