Godfree wrote:I admire your honesty , I think it is the key to knowledge ,
Well it's a start.
Godfree wrote:if we aren't ruthlessly honest with ourselves ,,we can indulge the ,
emotions of a subject and ignore the rational logic that we see .
I think ignoring rational logic is underrated. I agree that it is entirely logical that you cannot create something from nothing, I don't think it therefore is true. There are aspects of quantum mechanicsthat defy logic, but QM is an extremely successful model.
Godfree wrote:There is a lot of proof , things like the age of the Earth ,
they may be a wee bit out , but it's pretty close , certainly not 6000 yrs ,
and evolution , same , there may be a few details to adjust ,
but the basic picture is right , life evolves , continuously ,
the process is happening now ,
Why do you think the age of the Earth is relevant to anything I have said? Presumably you are citing this as evidence for an infinite universe, but none of it is inconsistent with a big bang that happened 13.7 billion years ago.
Godfree wrote: and space and planets also has it's cycle,
Not sure what you mean by this. Stuff has happened, is happening and will continue to do so; if that's a 'cycle' I wouldn't disagree, but I feel you mean rather more.
Godfree wrote:man has spent over 80 years on bbt maths , and they still have not proved it ,
Well, if you ask me, no amount of time spent on maths proves anything other than that the maths is consistent. I like Albert Einstein on this:
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain: and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
Godfree wrote:I would like to see a bit more time spent on repeating cycle concepts,
Have you considered the possibility that people have spent as much time as they think worthwhile on the subject already?
Godfree wrote:you know ,, infinity , a never ending process that had no beginning ,
a repeating cycle , you trusted me to bother looking up red and dead ,
trust me enough to run repeating cycle over in your brain ,
and see what you come up with , you might surprise yourself ,
I don't know what is supposed to be repeating. If you believe in an infinite universe, you are surely commited to an infinite set of states it could be in, which therefore will not repeat. If you are talking about recycling on a galactic scale, you are committed to accepting that there is no causal connection between galaxies; so that, for instance, gravity is a localised phenomenon. That at least would explain why the universe doesn't collapse and I suppose you could posit tired gravitons to explain it. I dunno, what are you actually on about Godfree?
Godfree wrote:I have several references to sites and individuals on the ,
Big bang is Busted , thread here by me a year or so ago ,
Micheal Lewis ,,"Thebigbangneverhappened.com" , I think , might be .org ,,??
It's .org. What do you suppose it shows that you are not alone in your thinking?
chaz wyman wrote:When was it that you realised that the Big Bang was nothing more than a Christian conspiracy?
When you re-run that part of your life you will realise that you too are indulgent of your emotions and have abandoned logic.
Oh, I see. Thanks for that Chaz. Godfree, trust me enough to run this over in your brain: you do not have to be a religious nutter to believe in the big bang.
Blimey, I can't keep up; this has been posted since I wrote the above.
Godfree wrote:religion has been trying to get science to prove religion ,
for a very long time , so the bb is just perfect , taylor made ,
in the beginning , according to science ,,,
you really only see what you want to Chaz,
you are as prejudice as a fundamentalist ,
a fixed closed mind ,
The idea that 'Science' exists is an organised structure in the way of religions is ludicrous. It is true that there are foundations that give grants to people willing to put a religious slant on things, there are even universities funded by religious organisations, but to extrapolate that the millions of different people with different interests and beliefs involved in science are all involved in some steady state cover up is laughable. To equate anyone with a fundamentalist because they happen to disagree with you is a disgrace; to accuse someone of having a fixed closed mind simply because it isn't open to the codswallop you would fill it with is risible.
Get this Godfree: I do believe in the big bang. I don't believe in god. There are a great many contributors and scientists who could say the same.