No, no.. Forget what you know for a sec and understand I'm asking what's beyond the balloon.
Evolution - A serious question.
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No, no.. Forget what you know for a sec and understand I'm asking what's beyond the balloon.
carolinajazz
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“A component has evidently been missing from cosmological studies. The origin of the Universe, like the solution of the Rubik cube, requires an intelligence,” wrote astrophysicist Fred Hoyle in his book The Intelligent Universe, page 189.
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.”—Disturbing the Universe, by Freeman Dyson, page 250.
“What features of the Universe were essential for the emergence of creatures such as ourselves, and is it through coincidence, or for some deeper reason, that our Universe has these features? .*.*. Is there some deeper plan that ensures that the Universe is tailor-made for humankind?”—Cosmic Coincidences, by John Gribbin and Martin Rees, pages xiv, 4.
Fred Hoyle also comments on these properties, on page*220 of his book quoted above: “Such properties seem to run through the fabric of the natural world like a thread of happy accidents. But there are so many of these odd coincidences essential to life that some explanation seems required to account for them.”
“It is not only that man is adapted to the universe. The universe is adapted to man. Imagine a universe in which one or another of the fundamental dimensionless constants of physics is altered by a few percent one way or the other? Man could never come into being in such a universe. That is the central point of the anthropic principle. According to this principle, a life-giving factor lies at the centre of the whole machinery and design of the world.”—The Anthropic Cosmological Principle,” by John Barrow and Frank Tipler,*page*vii.
Romans 1:20 declares: “His invisible qualities are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable.”
The question is meaningless. The universe is not expanding in a larger one. A balloon is a 3-dimensional object expanding into the dimensionality provided by the universe. When the universe expands, it is the dimensions themselves gaining ability to contain stuff of the appropriate dimensionality at a larger average seperation.
I am in bed reading, so I'm using my tablet to type this, which is a pain in the ***. I can elaboratory tomorrow if I found the time. But I assure you that myself and countless others have pondered these questions at a far deeper level than your "forget what you know" phrase suggests you realize.
Please do. I care. And I owe my best explanation I can muster for my kids. Mine sucks.
NAOS
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did you ever state what your opinions were? I'd be really interested in reading those.
RJF
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Heres a thought that just popped into my head: is the reason so many religious people(no matter the denomination) oppose/believe homosexuality is a sin because they've been taught that people are created in the image of God. And being born gay isn't possible because it would completely shatter that theory?
It's circular.
Can't tell if serious...
I'm currently taking a biological anthropology class and we are studying this very thing. I see why DarkwingDick didn't want to finish reading my first post.
Darkwing Duck
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Hope you're enjoying it!
I think you should watch Interstella... it presented an interesting, albeit controversial theory...
NAOS
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serious