Chap wrote: Deities of all kinds are simply imaginary constructs
Would this be similar to an evolutionists imaginary construct of life spontaneously forming from non living material?
Peace, Ceeboo
Kinda like the Big Bang theory, Ceebee?
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
harmony wrote: Kinda like the Big Bang theory, Ceebee?
Yes, in my opinion the Big Bang is an imaginary contruct!
And who is "Ceebee"?
Peace, Ceeboo
Uhuh.
So let's get this straight ...
The universe as we see it is expanding. That does rather suggest, does it not, that we might reasonably try working backwards to try to work out when it could have started spreading out?
And what if we then find the right intensity of cosmic microwave background radiation (you might call it "the last echo of the Big Bang") to fit in with a reasonable interpretation of how long ago that expansion started?
You'd still call that 'imagination'?
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
The universe as we see it is expanding. That does rather suggest, does it not, that we might reasonably try working backwards to try to work out when it could have started spreading out?
And what if we then find the right intensity of cosmic microwave background radiation (you might call it "the last echo of the Big Bang") to fit in with a reasonable interpretation of how long ago that expansion started?
You'd still call that 'imagination'?
Uhuh.
So let's get this stright......
The universe as we see it is expanding = The universe was created out of nothing, from nothing, and by nothing......... a very very long time ago with absolutely nothing to cauze this nothing!
The universe as we see it is expanding = The universe was created out of nothing, from nothing, and by nothing.........
Did I ever say that?
The suggestion that the universe probably expanded violently and suddenly (a Big Bang) from a state when it was concentrated into a very small space is now quite well supported by detailed data.
That hypothesis does not imply a theory of how the sudden expansion originated. All that is a separate question. You are making the same kind of mistake here that you did when you conflated evolution with the hypothesis that living systems originated from non-living matter.
If all you can do is to make up casual and ill-informed parodies of scientific ideas, you won't convince anybody but the scientifically ignorant.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
If all you can do is to make up casual and ill-informed parodies of scientific ideas, you won't convince anybody but the scientifically ignorant.
Getting mad huh?
Peace, Ceeboo
No. More like losing interest. You seem to be a nice person, but if you just want to post playful stuff on an immensely complex and fascinating topic such as the early history of the cosmos, and then I shall probably let you do it solo.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
You seem to be a nice person, but if you just want to post playful stuff on an immensely complex and fascinating topic such as the early history of the cosmos, and then I shall probably let you do it solo.
liz3564 wrote:I think that all cultures create God in their own image.
You'll get no argument from me there.
“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
