Re: Big bang; Science and Religion.


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On Oct 14, 11:03 am, socratus <israel...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Catholic Church adopted the theory of Big Bang
as a good proof of God existing. And Pope Pius XII
declared this in 1951.

Which just goes to show the standard of proof maintained
by the Catholic Church.

That an event has no (presently) known cause does not prove
anything about speculation as to the cause.

Indeed. And there are theories such as the one that ours is just a tiny bubble
universe amongst multitudes of bubble (membrane) universes in a 'multiverse',
with the Big Bang singularity resulting from the collision of two such membrane
universes. Not so 'singular', then!

Ok string, 'M', (or whatever it's preferred name is these days) theory is only
pure maths at the moment, and it seems hard to imagine how the multiverse
concept described can be verified empirically, but who knows, it might be
testable one day.

This article in the CERN Courrier outlines a number of the alternatives...

http://cerncourier.com/cws/article/cern/31860

I would draw the attention of religionists to this paragraph from the article by
Cern scientist Barrau, after he has introduced the string theory multiverse
model....

"This multiverse - if true - would force a profound change of our deep
understanding of physics. The laws reappear as kinds of phenomena; the
ontological primer of our universe would have to be abandoned. At other places
in the multiverse, there would be other laws, other constants, other numbers of
dimensions; our world would be just a tiny sample. It could be, following
Copernicus, Darwin and Freud, the fourth narcissistic injury."

Yep, the importance of humans in the overall scheme of things is shrinking
regularly - no wonder the fundies are running scared!

For example, back in 1996 my Ford Granada was stolen, but I
don't know who took it ... but it might have been god, therefore
he exists (if it was him, by the way, I don't mind that much
because the insurance company paid out far more than I thought
the car was worth ... but would you mind returning some of my
tapes to me?)

:)


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