I must say that I agree with the reply to the comment more than the comment itself. It seems pretty arrogant and small minded to assume that because you may understand a little of how the universe works through sciences such as physics and quantum mechanics, that you really can say there is no god. Even Eintsein and Hawkings beleive in god, and they understood more of the workings of the universe than probably any other man in history! I do beleive in the idea of a god more than the religions which preach it, but I tend to agree with Hawking's appraoch to god: in that the universe in it's vast complexity and size, started with such an undeniably perfect beginning, that there MUST have been 'something' behind it, nothing since then has been created so perfectly. But if you and your anarchistic freinds feel more comfortable when your drinking together at night discussing these things to simply let what mankind has come up with explain the universe, or if you are in fact religious(because I have nothing against your opinion personally), and wish to let some self-righteous 'freind' of GOD give his 2000 year old explanation(which has been revised more than ANY peice of really bad code) and take him at his word: knock yourself out! When is comes down to the end of it, for each of us, it's what you've done with that belief that counts. And the quality of the code you spew forth.
Sure, it's easy to assume that we will never be able to conjure a 3dimensionally logical view of a 4D Universe. But we as humans have always been arrogant enough to beleive that we know it all, can explain it all, or even begin to understand it all. I think once we let go of our current "understanding" of the universe, and start from scratch, mathematically anyways, we will begin to see things in a new light. In other words, I agree. Kudos
Sorry, not much chance of reading through more than 50 of the posts, but... Does this mean that Hawking was right when he said if you travelled in a "straight" line long enough in the universe, you could end up where you started? Not very hard to imagine the Universe as being 3 dimensional, yet residing on a "sphere" of sorts, yet on a plane to that whatever direction travelled in, the destination always points towards the starting point. Hmmm... Neoevans
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I must say that I agree with the reply to the comment more than the comment itself. It seems pretty arrogant and small minded to assume that because you may understand a little of how the universe works through sciences such as physics and quantum mechanics, that you really can say there is no god. Even Eintsein and Hawkings beleive in god, and they understood more of the workings of the universe than probably any other man in history! I do beleive in the idea of a god more than the religions which preach it, but I tend to agree with Hawking's appraoch to god: in that the universe in it's vast complexity and size, started with such an undeniably perfect beginning, that there MUST have been 'something' behind it, nothing since then has been created so perfectly. But if you and your anarchistic freinds feel more comfortable when your drinking together at night discussing these things to simply let what mankind has come up with explain the universe, or if you are in fact religious(because I have nothing against your opinion personally), and wish to let some self-righteous 'freind' of GOD give his 2000 year old explanation(which has been revised more than ANY peice of really bad code) and take him at his word: knock yourself out! When is comes down to the end of it, for each of us, it's what you've done with that belief that counts. And the quality of the code you spew forth.
Sure, it's easy to assume that we will never be able to conjure a 3dimensionally logical view of a 4D Universe. But we as humans have always been arrogant enough to beleive that we know it all, can explain it all, or even begin to understand it all. I think once we let go of our current "understanding" of the universe, and start from scratch, mathematically anyways, we will begin to see things in a new light. In other words, I agree. Kudos
Sorry, not much chance of reading through more than 50 of the posts, but... Does this mean that Hawking was right when he said if you travelled in a "straight" line long enough in the universe, you could end up where you started? Not very hard to imagine the Universe as being 3 dimensional, yet residing on a "sphere" of sorts, yet on a plane to that whatever direction travelled in, the destination always points towards the starting point. Hmmm... Neoevans