08-31-2015, 05:22 PM
(08-31-2015, 04:39 PM)Doctor A Wrote:That is just a random guess, and about as good as somewhere in the belt of saturn, the center of the earth or another planet or perhaps he is in my attic. The thing is whatever guesswork anyone comes up with is about as useful and worthy of being believed as saying that there is a dragon in my garage.(08-31-2015, 04:23 PM)Marko Wrote: Who is God tho? Where can i meet him?Someone who could be living at the end of the path through a wormhole.
(08-31-2015, 04:39 PM)Doctor A Wrote: The questions is, why not?Because God is complete speculation, with literally zero actual evidence. Things that previously needed a god to explain how they worked (how did we come into existence? (evolution), how do the tides work? (the Moon's gravitational pull) etc.) have since been very well explained by science. Well most of them anyway, and the ones which have not (how was the world created? (big bang?)) are still not well explained by just adding a god into the mix.
Universe popped into existence/was always there vs. God popped into existence/was always there and made the universe pop into existence.
"Why not?" is a question someone asks in order to move the burden of proof away from themself.
(08-31-2015, 04:49 PM)Doctor A Wrote: Didn't every theory start with "some creative idea and ask scientist to prove it wrong" though?No. For one thing an actual hypothesis needs to be somewhat well defined (which God is not), so you can actually test it, and see whether or not it holds up in reality.
Secondly the people who test it will (mostly anyway) be the people who came up with the hypothesis. Thirdly the ideas are usually not actually very creative, as they are usually based on our current understanding of reality (as in previously well established theories) as opposed to thousand year old books. When other scientists do look at others' hypotheses it is generally because it accommodates our current understanding of the world in a nice manner, that seems plausible, and surely it is possible that something which seems very implausible (like string theory) turns out to be a subject worthy of study, but it takes time for it to be recognized as such.
Speaking of wormholes:
Has any actual wormhole ever been sighted? Do we have any actual evidence of them? Or are they simply something which our current understanding of the universe does not seem to forbid, and MAY help explain certain phenomena?
Age ratings for movies and games (and similar) have never been a good idea.
One can learn a lot from reinventing wheels.
An unsound argument is not the same as an invalid one.
volatile in C++ does not mean thread-safe.
Do not make APIs unnecessarily asynchronous.
Make C++ operator > again
Trump is an idiot.
One can learn a lot from reinventing wheels.
An unsound argument is not the same as an invalid one.
volatile in C++ does not mean thread-safe.
Do not make APIs unnecessarily asynchronous.
Make C++ operator > again
Trump is an idiot.

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