Do you believe in a source of all that exists?
How about a singularity, fourteen billion years back?
How about a singularity, fourteen billion years back?
Do you believe in a source of all that exists?
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AN AGE CRISIS?
If we compare the two age determinations, there is a potential crisis. If the universe is flat, and dominated by ordinary or dark matter, the age of the universe as inferred from the Hubble constant would be about 9 billion years. The age of the universe would be shorter than the age of oldest stars. This contradiction implies that either 1) our measurement of the Hubble constant is incorrect, 2) the Big Bang theory is incorrect or 3) that we need a form of matter like a cosmological constant that implies an older age for a given observed expansion rate.
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_age.html
If we compare the two age determinations, there is a potential crisis. If the universe is flat, and dominated by ordinary or dark matter, the age of the universe as inferred from the Hubble constant would be about 9 billion years. The age of the universe would be shorter than the age of oldest stars. This contradiction implies that either 1) our measurement of the Hubble constant is incorrect, 2) the Big Bang theory is incorrect or 3) that we need a form of matter like a cosmological constant that implies an older age for a given observed expansion rate.
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_age.html
Yes that's all very impressive.
Because people want to believe in something and are vulnerable prey for the parasites.
Exactly. What started off as superstition to explain natural events has morphed into a crutch for a few billion people. And just like any crutch, this one is likely to cost you as well.
I mean think about it for a minute. People throwing "offerings" into the collection plate aren't all that far removed from cave men killing an elk and sacrificing it as an offering to some now unknown god(s). In the literal sense today's fool may not be slaughtering an animal but he/she is still "sacrificing" some of their hard-earned dough to appease a non-existent entity.
And considering the scale of our universe, even if there is some kind of creator out there I'm pretty sure it's not keeping attendance at churches/mosques/synagogues. And I'm pretty damn sure it doesn't give a flying fig how much money you think you're giving it.
Galileo, despite being a fairly devout believer also said, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Now, it's one thing to believe in something more than just what we experience here on Earth as physical entities. But to blindly put your faith in a religion, or any single ideology for that matter, one has to forego one's sense, reasoning and intellect.
Yes, I think you're right. I've read several times from believers "if you don't believe in a god, then what have you to live for?" I guess is gives some a reason to continue on.
Humans are so smart and yet...
I once listened to an interview on 60 minutes with the statesman William Sloan Coffin. The interviewer Mike Wallace asked Mr. Coffin, " if there is a just and merciful god, then why does "He" allow all the suffering and injustice in the world.? Coffin paused , and then said, god may ask all of us, "why do you allow it?"
Well he's dead now.
Why is he dishonest though? Are we as humans not responsible for much of the way things are?
Probably cured that slow cough.
Because he agreed to an interview, then decided to be cutesy instead of answering the question.
"De Almighty says to quit changin' de subject and answer de fockin' question."
--Stephen, Braveheart
I tell them I live for my family and for myself.
I like Futurama's take on it. IF you do too much, people get dependent on you. If you don't do enough people lose faith in you. But if you do everything just right, nobody will know you did anything at all.
"Everyone needs something to believe, and I believe I'll have another drink."
--W.C. Fields
No it wasn't. It was an evasion.