"I guess the bigger issue is not the form factor of future computers, but their capabilities."
The form factor of a computer is irrelevant because a computer is nothing more than a binary data processing device. If you want to develop software for a computer that controls a car, the tools you might use would be vastly different than if you need a tool to program the computer that controls your dishwasher or washing machine. There will always be tools for doing whatever job needs to be done. If what we have come to know and love as a PC will do the job, then that will be available to those who need to do the job of programming specialized computers. Swiss Army knives are useful tools for doing all sorts of things, but a specialized tool for a given job is usually far better.
The C in PC stands for computer. What is a computer? My laptop dictionary defines it thus:
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
It doesn't say anything about input or output. Most of us have many computers, devices we don't usually think of that way. I have a device we call the phone which enables me to communicate with distant friends. I have a device that washes dishes, entertains me with pictures and sound, drives me to the grocery store and many other devices. They all have in common that they do indeed store and process binary data. The input data comes from keyboards, mice, microphones gas and brake pedals and many other sources. Most of these devices are very personal, so I think they qualify as a personal computer. A cell phone is nothing more than a personal computer that makes phone calls. We do not live in a post-PC era, but just an era where PCs are used for all kinds of special purposes. PCs are now so cheap that even put them by the hundreds of millions into things like electrical power measuring meters. Anybody who says we are living in the end of the PC area, has to define the term a little more carefully.
"The fact is, there are nuclear weapons in the world. They are here and they are not leaving until something more powerful comes along..."
Just before Jesus Christ was murdered, his followers came to him one day and asked him about this “return” of his to rule over the Earth. He told them many things. Among them he said that there would come a time so terrible, such as has never been on Earth nor will never be again and if that time were not cut short by God, no life would remain on earth.
There are thousands of nuclear weapons stored in the arsenals of the various nations. If only a small fraction of those were exploded in a global war, the radiation released could indeed threaten all life forms on the planet. Fortunately, humanity is not in charge of their own destiny, even though many have that delusion. Someone, namely God, the one who put us here on this Earth, will intervene and prevent us foolish human beings from destroying ourselves and His planet. He has given us thousands of years to learn how to govern ourselves. We have accomplished nothing but strife and war, killing each other individually and nationally. He promised to return and personally govern, because we have clearly failed.
Except that the overlords in each nation, once they were overlords over their own people, would want to be overlords over each other. That process would continue until there was only one overlord over the whole world. During that process, it is unfortunately not at all unlikely that some crazy overlord somewhere would use nuclear weapons to try and prevent some other overlord to lord it over them.
"Nope, you are gonna get flamed for saying that. It is unacceptable to take the stated positions of madmen seriously"
I guess you never read the ramblings of a madman named Hitler called “Mein Kampf”. He pretty much wrote out what he was going to do if he ever had the power to do that. A lot of bloodshed could have been averted if the stated positions of this madman had been taken seriously.
People that subscribe to a religion that exhorts them to kill anyone that does not obey their particular prophet, don't mind killing themselves flying airplanes into buildings. They think that their god will reward them richly for murdering as many infidels as possible. If people like that have nukes (and they are working hard at getting them), they will take a whole city and wipe it out. Instead of casualties in the thousands, there would be casualties in the millions from the actions of these religiously crazed people. People that declare publicly over and over and over and over that a certain other group of people should be wiped from the map, will do exactly that or at least attempt to if they had the means to carry out their evil threats.
Just as the electric interactions manifest to us in the form of waves or particles, so also gravity is theorized to be manifest as gravitational waves or particles that have been named gravitons. Even though billions have been spent in building detectors which are supposed to detect gravity waves, none have ever been found. These constructs appear to be only mathematical entities existing in cosmologists and physicist's equations. Dark matter and dark energy as well as black holes are also in this category. They are inferred by mathematics, but but never directly observed.
Since the equations for gravity contain no terms related in any way to the speed of light, it is not likely therefore then that gravity is limited to the speed of light which we happen to measure today. Electromagnetic energy appears to be limited by the medium through which it propagates. Light travels more slowly through many other substances, such as glass or water. No one has ever discovered a medium through which light travels faster than through so-called “empty space”. Space is not really an empty nothing, but has certain measurable electrical and magnetic properties. No one really knows WHY light travels at the speed we observe it to do today. There is a theory that it has something to do with the zero point energy. You can read about it here in terms that the average person should be able to understand, especially someone that visits/.
Zero point energy limits the speed at which the electromagnetic phenomena can propagate. Both moving matter and energy are electromagnetic and are therefore subject to the relativistic speed limit imposed by the present density of the zero point energy. Since gravity is not electrical in nature, the zero point energy imposes no limit on the velocity of its propagation.
It is not possible to “shield” against gravity, at least not by any technology that we know about, so by our knowledge we cannot use gravity as a means of communication. We do not really shield against electrical/magnetic phenomena, but are able to generate equal and opposite electromagnetic fields which have the effect of canceling out the incident field. If humanity ever discovers antigravity, then that would also allow us to communicate instantaneously throughout the universe. Our physical world of electrical charges is however always limited by the medium of space itself to the speed of light.
"This is why no physicists I know or am aware of really believed in the recent FTL neutrino experiment."
We really don't know very much about gravity, but the earth and the sun have to “know” where they are with respect for each other NOW, not 8 min. from now. The sun and the center of the galaxy must “feel” each other's influence near instantly rather than 35,000 years or whatever from now. Gravity is the weakest force we know about, but it makes up for by being unbelievably fast.
If you want to bring Holy Scriptures into this discussion, please keep in mind that Jesus Christ told his disciples that in his Father's house are many dwelling places and that he is going to prepare a place for them that they may also be where he is. (John 14) It is most likely that heaven and hell are not even part of this time–space limited dimension. The idea of a heaven and a hell have however had a large effect on humanity.
"But I think SETI lacks something.. SETI simply isn't sexy."....
The speed of light is very fast to us, but on a cosmic, galactic or even more so on an intergalactic scale, it is glacially slow. Any advanced civilization out there would certainly use a means of communications that is billions of times faster than mere electromagnetic signal propagation. We at present do not have the means of sending or receiving an intelligent signal by means of gravity, which of by necessity would have to be ALMOST infinitely fast. The Sun and the Earth don't “feel” each other's gravity as it was 8 min. ago, but instantaneously for all practical purposes. If this were not true, the earth would have left its orbit around the sun ages ago and the sun would have left the Milky Way galaxy long before human beings inhabited the earth. Even our most powerful radio transmitters would not have enough power to be detectable at galactic distances, at least with any kind of detection systems that we know anything about. The bottom line for all of this is that this is a big waste of money. I hope this project dies and the money it sucks up is used for a better purpose.
"Ask any astronomer why..... The answer rests, in fact, on very solid foundations."
This is a paragraph Aristotle or Ptolemy or any other ancient Greek philosopher could also have written in his day. I agree that it is likely that the universe is very old, perhaps even older than 13.7 billion years. That is much smaller than a picosecond in the existence of the God of the Bible who is eternal, that is timeless, because he created time itself. There are lots of things in life that we can't prove scientifically, but that are nevertheless true and real. I believe that our existence here on earth in this present time dimension, is like a college education. There is life after college and there is life after this life.
Nothing is ever “proved” except perhaps in mathematics. In normal everyday life, such as in courts of law for example, the available evidence can be believed by the jury or judge or not believed. When I reveal something about myself, such as that I love my wife or I like to eat sauerkraut, there is no way that can be tested. You can only believe or disbelieve my statement. The Bible claims to be the specific communication from God to man. This cannot be tested scientifically, but can only be believed by faith or disbelieved. Because everything is created by God, including time, he presents evidence for the correctness of the Bible, by accurately writing history before it happens. Any day now, you will read headlines about the destruction of Damascus. This is an incredible prediction, because Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth. At the same time this happens, Hamas and Hezbollah will cease to exist. When this happens, perhaps you will believe the evidence, but then you are free not to believe also.
Halton Arp, A contemporary astronomer has shown that the red shift is not necessarily a sign of distance or movement. The contemporary mainstream astronomy interprets the fact of the red shift as distance and movement of galaxies and stars. Dr. Arp has clearly demonstrated that this interpretation is not correct, but his research cost him his position as astronomer on the Mount Palomar Observatory. The red shift can also be interpreted as a fundamental change in the speed of electromagnetic radiation through space. Such a change to so-called “constants” of nature such as “c” and its inverse, Planck's constant h, also affect the rate of radioactive decay. From this interpretation of the red shift it is evident that the speed of light has decreased by a factor of 300 million from what it was in the early days of the universe. This means that radioactivity proceeded that much faster at that time.
BS! Even after 10,000 generations, these bacteria were still E. coli making more E. coli for more generations. They never “evolved” into even any other kind of bacteria such as Streptococcus or spirochetes. This experiment proves just the opposite, namely that E. coli only produce more E. coli, chickens produce more chickens and people produce more people. Over thousands of years people have managed to breed many different shapes and sizes of dogs, but they still are all dogs. Evolution within dogs or cats or other animals modified by breeding is a fact. Anything beyond that is belief to counter belief in God.
"What are the testable implications of the existence of God?"
The existence of unfathomable quantities of information in all living things is strong evidence for the existence of a mind wherein all this information first arose. All information, whether natural living or nonliving or obviously human works and arts comes from someone's mind. No one, at any time, has demonstrated that information can arise from anywhere other than a mind, either human minds or God's mind. Anyone that can demonstrate the origin of any information from any other source besides a conscious mind, has disproved that a great mind, namely the mind of God is behind the universe. Even in inanimate objects such as the formation of a Crystal of salt or other minerals contain information in the form of the laws of physics. All laws, whether human or natural, require a lawgiver, one or more persons showing forth the activity of their minds. The only way that Hamlet can know of the existence of Shakespeare is if the author has written himself into the play. God has written himself into the design of the universe.
All radioactive dating is severely flawed because it is based on an assumption. That assumption is that radioactive decay has always, throughout all time, proceeded at exactly the rate we observe today. “Assumption” or “assume” is the scientific way of saying “faith” or “believe”. There is of no way to “prove” or “disprove” this assumption. It just simply believed to be true without proof or evidence that radioactivity and other natural processes have not in fact changed throughout all those ages of time. Any time a theory is based on an assumption, the whole theory stands or falls with such an assumption. A faulty assumption is like a bad foundation of a house. Eventually the house collapses with a big crash.
The evolution/creation debate is a coin whose other side is the theist/atheists debate. Like you said, neither can be proven, but only believed by faith or not. If God, such as described in the Bible exists, he is all-powerful and all-knowing and can do anything at all. This includes making the world look in such a way as to make people think that it evolved without him being involved in any way or having had anything to do with it in any shape or form. Knowing HOW the universe came into existence with us therein, is in my mind not nearly as important as knowing WHY the universe and we are here. When someone gives you a gift of a complex gadget, such as an iPad or iPhone, is your first thought how that gadget came to be, or do you want to know more importantly why it was given to you and what it is good for? By carefully examining and experimenting with your iPad, you will probably discover some uses for it and perhaps even figure out how it works. This is what science does in our life. There is however no way that you can discover, no matter how minutely you examine the device, why the giver has given it to you, you in particular and not somebody else. If the device is very useful to you and improves your life, you may find it within yourself to try and find out who gave it to you and why and possibly give thanks. You may even find yourself wishing that you could get to know the giver personally. As you further explore your iPad, you come across a file in which it is stated that it was originated by the the one who gave you this gift. The text tells you all sorts of things which are completely outside of your knowledge and experience as well as certain things about the Giver that seem rather far out to you and well beyond the understanding of you and your most educated and intellectual friends. There is no way you can discern how that file came to be on your iPad. The only choice you have is to either BELIEVE or not believe that it came from the Giver and is the Truth from and about Him. In my analogy, the device you are given is LIFE and the file from the Giver of life is the Bible and the Giver is GOD.
The Earth is also at the center of the Universe and light travels instantaneously from place to place no matter what distance! These were the assumptions of all scientists who studied these things back a few hundred years ago. “Assume” is the scientific way of saying “believe”, in other words have faith without proof or even reasonable evidence. All humans have faith, even scientists that operate supercomputers. The feed garbage into those supercomputers and get garbage out, naturally. They believe the garbage spewed out by these supercomputers, that is purely mathematical and has absolutely not the slightest connection with what's really out there. Today these mainstream scientists assume that the electric interaction is not in operation on a cosmic scale. They believe this, contrary to lots of evidence that tells us that ain't so. Science and religion are not as far apart as you and many others like to believe.
It is certainly true that the human being is incurably religious. This characteristic has never been observed in other creatures. The “how” questions and the “why” questions are identical twins that are joined at the hip. Evolutionists try desperately to explain the existence of life in all its complexity without reference to God. I am not familiar with the other religions, but I do know that the God of the Bible challenges humans to observe his creation and then give him the credit and honor due. People don't like it when someone or something else is given credit for their creative work. God clearly tells us in the Bible, that he doesn't like it either. It is one thing for a scientist to explain how a living organism works or how a law of physics operates, but it is quite another to attribute the origin of the organism or the law to someone other than the true originator of both. In the study of origins, science is no longer studying “how”, but “why” and when this organism or law first came into existence. At that point, scientists are stepping onto the turf of theologians.
A big problem with present-day cosmology is that it fundamentally assumes that our galaxy and the universe as a whole operate primarily by the force of gravity, because that is the dominant force apparent in the solar system today. Gravity only dominates in places that are essentially electrically neutral, like the Earth, the moon and the planets. Most of the mass of the universe is electrically charged plasma carrying immense electrical currents. When the current density of plasma is low, it is said to be operating in dark mode. As the current density increases, it enters glow mode, like a neon sign. We see evidences of this electrical glow in the aurora borealis excited by electrical currents from the sun. Instruments like the Hubble space telescope bring back beautiful, fantastic images of glowing plasmas in the depths of space. When the current density in a plasma as well as the density of the plasma itself gets to a certain point, arc discharges take place. On Earth, lightning is a natural arc discharge. Arc welding and arc lamps are examples of human use of plasma arcs. From electrical engineering and physics we have learned that in order to have an electrical current, it is necessary to have a driving voltage for that current. It has also been demonstrated that electric currents always have an associated magnetic field. We have also learned that when a charged particle undergoes acceleration or deceleration, it radiates photons, that is electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays and light. The cosmic background radiation is generated by these large currents throughout all of space. In most of space, the plasma and current density is very low, but space is very big. Free flowing electrical currents through space tend to concentrate by their self generated magnetic fields into a phenomenon that is known as a “z-pinch”, where the current and the matter density is high enough to make bright electrical arcs. We call these are points “stars”. Our Sun is one of hundreds of billions of these. Galaxies rotate because of the existence of huge rivers of electric current by the same principles as a Homo polar motor. An everyday example of such a motor is the electric meter by means of which the power company figures out how much to charge you for electricity. Because of the rotation of the galaxies is so much faster than a gravity only model would permit, cosmologists have to invent fictional dark matter to create the gravity that would be required to allow such fast rotation. In the electric model, the rotation speed of the galaxy is simply a function of the total amount of current flowing in that particular galactic circuit. There still are many questions in the electrical theory of the universe, but it is able to give much simpler, down-to-earth explanations for the “strange and weird” behavior of the universe.
Einstein definitely believed in a God who was a person. He was skeptical of quantum theory and said once, “God does not play dice”. Impersonal God's, don't play anything, only personal beings can to things like play dice.
If the so-called “God” that can be grasped and understood by human reason, then by definition he/she is not a God. Human reason is very limited, but the real God, by definition cannot be limited by mere human reasonings, because then human reason itself becomes God. Science is limited to that part of reality which our senses and the extensions thereof can perceive. When someone tells you something outside of your understanding and experience, you can choose to flatly refuse to believe, believe what that person tells you because you trust them, or simply ignore what you were told. In the end, it does not matter what you believe, but WHOM you believe. You can believe what reason tells you or you can believe what faith tells you. It's your choice.
There are many aspects to the electric universe theory. Accepted science today tells us that the energy of the sun comes from an internal fusion reaction. In recent years, modern solar observation satellites have brought back much data which is confusing and puzzling if attempts are made to explain it by the generally accepted theories. Here is an article you can read:
When matter and antimatter collide, the reaction products include ordinary light, usually in the x-ray spectrum. This has been experimentally verified with particle accelerators.
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"I guess the bigger issue is not the form factor of future computers, but their capabilities."
The form factor of a computer is irrelevant because a computer is nothing more than a binary data processing device. If you want to develop software for a computer that controls a car, the tools you might use would be vastly different than if you need a tool to program the computer that controls your dishwasher or washing machine. There will always be tools for doing whatever job needs to be done. If what we have come to know and love as a PC will do the job, then that will be available to those who need to do the job of programming specialized computers. Swiss Army knives are useful tools for doing all sorts of things, but a specialized tool for a given job is usually far better.
The C in PC stands for computer. What is a computer? My laptop dictionary defines it thus:
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically in binary form, according to instructions given to it in a variable program.
It doesn't say anything about input or output. Most of us have many computers, devices we don't usually think of that way. I have a device we call the phone which enables me to communicate with distant friends. I have a device that washes dishes, entertains me with pictures and sound, drives me to the grocery store and many other devices. They all have in common that they do indeed store and process binary data. The input data comes from keyboards, mice, microphones gas and brake pedals and many other sources. Most of these devices are very personal, so I think they qualify as a personal computer. A cell phone is nothing more than a personal computer that makes phone calls. We do not live in a post-PC era, but just an era where PCs are used for all kinds of special purposes. PCs are now so cheap that even put them by the hundreds of millions into things like electrical power measuring meters. Anybody who says we are living in the end of the PC area, has to define the term a little more carefully.
"The fact is, there are nuclear weapons in the world. They are here and they are not leaving until something more powerful comes along..."
Just before Jesus Christ was murdered, his followers came to him one day and asked him about this “return” of his to rule over the Earth. He told them many things. Among them he said that there would come a time so terrible, such as has never been on Earth nor will never be again and if that time were not cut short by God, no life would remain on earth.
There are thousands of nuclear weapons stored in the arsenals of the various nations. If only a small fraction of those were exploded in a global war, the radiation released could indeed threaten all life forms on the planet. Fortunately, humanity is not in charge of their own destiny, even though many have that delusion. Someone, namely God, the one who put us here on this Earth, will intervene and prevent us foolish human beings from destroying ourselves and His planet. He has given us thousands of years to learn how to govern ourselves. We have accomplished nothing but strife and war, killing each other individually and nationally. He promised to return and personally govern, because we have clearly failed.
Except that the overlords in each nation, once they were overlords over their own people, would want to be overlords over each other. That process would continue until there was only one overlord over the whole world. During that process, it is unfortunately not at all unlikely that some crazy overlord somewhere would use nuclear weapons to try and prevent some other overlord to lord it over them.
"Nope, you are gonna get flamed for saying that. It is unacceptable to take the stated positions of madmen seriously"
I guess you never read the ramblings of a madman named Hitler called “Mein Kampf”. He pretty much wrote out what he was going to do if he ever had the power to do that. A lot of bloodshed could have been averted if the stated positions of this madman had been taken seriously.
People that subscribe to a religion that exhorts them to kill anyone that does not obey their particular prophet, don't mind killing themselves flying airplanes into buildings. They think that their god will reward them richly for murdering as many infidels as possible. If people like that have nukes (and they are working hard at getting them), they will take a whole city and wipe it out. Instead of casualties in the thousands, there would be casualties in the millions from the actions of these religiously crazed people. People that declare publicly over and over and over and over that a certain other group of people should be wiped from the map, will do exactly that or at least attempt to if they had the means to carry out their evil threats.
Just as the electric interactions manifest to us in the form of waves or particles, so also gravity is theorized to be manifest as gravitational waves or particles that have been named gravitons. Even though billions have been spent in building detectors which are supposed to detect gravity waves, none have ever been found. These constructs appear to be only mathematical entities existing in cosmologists and physicist's equations. Dark matter and dark energy as well as black holes are also in this category. They are inferred by mathematics, but but never directly observed.
Since the equations for gravity contain no terms related in any way to the speed of light, it is not likely therefore then that gravity is limited to the speed of light which we happen to measure today. Electromagnetic energy appears to be limited by the medium through which it propagates. Light travels more slowly through many other substances, such as glass or water. No one has ever discovered a medium through which light travels faster than through so-called “empty space”. Space is not really an empty nothing, but has certain measurable electrical and magnetic properties. No one really knows WHY light travels at the speed we observe it to do today. There is a theory that it has something to do with the zero point energy. You can read about it here in terms that the average person should be able to understand, especially someone that visits /.
http://www.setterfield.org/000docs/behaviorzpe.html
Zero point energy limits the speed at which the electromagnetic phenomena can propagate. Both moving matter and energy are electromagnetic and are therefore subject to the relativistic speed limit imposed by the present density of the zero point energy. Since gravity is not electrical in nature, the zero point energy imposes no limit on the velocity of its propagation.
It is not possible to “shield” against gravity, at least not by any technology that we know about, so by our knowledge we cannot use gravity as a means of communication. We do not really shield against electrical/magnetic phenomena, but are able to generate equal and opposite electromagnetic fields which have the effect of canceling out the incident field. If humanity ever discovers antigravity, then that would also allow us to communicate instantaneously throughout the universe. Our physical world of electrical charges is however always limited by the medium of space itself to the speed of light.
"This is why no physicists I know or am aware of really believed in the recent FTL neutrino experiment."
We really don't know very much about gravity, but the earth and the sun have to “know” where they are with respect for each other NOW, not 8 min. from now. The sun and the center of the galaxy must “feel” each other's influence near instantly rather than 35,000 years or whatever from now. Gravity is the weakest force we know about, but it makes up for by being unbelievably fast.
If you want to bring Holy Scriptures into this discussion, please keep in mind that Jesus Christ told his disciples that in his Father's house are many dwelling places and that he is going to prepare a place for them that they may also be where he is. (John 14) It is most likely that heaven and hell are not even part of this time–space limited dimension. The idea of a heaven and a hell have however had a large effect on humanity.
"But I think SETI lacks something.. SETI simply isn't sexy."....
The speed of light is very fast to us, but on a cosmic, galactic or even more so on an intergalactic scale, it is glacially slow. Any advanced civilization out there would certainly use a means of communications that is billions of times faster than mere electromagnetic signal propagation. We at present do not have the means of sending or receiving an intelligent signal by means of gravity, which of by necessity would have to be ALMOST infinitely fast. The Sun and the Earth don't “feel” each other's gravity as it was 8 min. ago, but instantaneously for all practical purposes. If this were not true, the earth would have left its orbit around the sun ages ago and the sun would have left the Milky Way galaxy long before human beings inhabited the earth. Even our most powerful radio transmitters would not have enough power to be detectable at galactic distances, at least with any kind of detection systems that we know anything about. The bottom line for all of this is that this is a big waste of money. I hope this project dies and the money it sucks up is used for a better purpose.
"Ask any astronomer why ..... The answer rests, in fact, on very solid foundations."
This is a paragraph Aristotle or Ptolemy or any other ancient Greek philosopher could also have written in his day. I agree that it is likely that the universe is very old, perhaps even older than 13.7 billion years. That is much smaller than a picosecond in the existence of the God of the Bible who is eternal, that is timeless, because he created time itself. There are lots of things in life that we can't prove scientifically, but that are nevertheless true and real. I believe that our existence here on earth in this present time dimension, is like a college education. There is life after college and there is life after this life.
What are the observations and what is their interpretation?
Nothing is ever “proved” except perhaps in mathematics. In normal everyday life, such as in courts of law for example, the available evidence can be believed by the jury or judge or not believed. When I reveal something about myself, such as that I love my wife or I like to eat sauerkraut, there is no way that can be tested. You can only believe or disbelieve my statement. The Bible claims to be the specific communication from God to man. This cannot be tested scientifically, but can only be believed by faith or disbelieved. Because everything is created by God, including time, he presents evidence for the correctness of the Bible, by accurately writing history before it happens. Any day now, you will read headlines about the destruction of Damascus. This is an incredible prediction, because Damascus is the oldest continuously inhabited city on earth. At the same time this happens, Hamas and Hezbollah will cease to exist. When this happens, perhaps you will believe the evidence, but then you are free not to believe also.
Halton Arp, A contemporary astronomer has shown that the red shift is not necessarily a sign of distance or movement. The contemporary mainstream astronomy interprets the fact of the red shift as distance and movement of galaxies and stars. Dr. Arp has clearly demonstrated that this interpretation is not correct, but his research cost him his position as astronomer on the Mount Palomar Observatory. The red shift can also be interpreted as a fundamental change in the speed of electromagnetic radiation through space. Such a change to so-called “constants” of nature such as “c” and its inverse, Planck's constant h, also affect the rate of radioactive decay. From this interpretation of the red shift it is evident that the speed of light has decreased by a factor of 300 million from what it was in the early days of the universe. This means that radioactivity proceeded that much faster at that time.
BS! Even after 10,000 generations, these bacteria were still E. coli making more E. coli for more generations. They never “evolved” into even any other kind of bacteria such as Streptococcus or spirochetes. This experiment proves just the opposite, namely that E. coli only produce more E. coli, chickens produce more chickens and people produce more people. Over thousands of years people have managed to breed many different shapes and sizes of dogs, but they still are all dogs. Evolution within dogs or cats or other animals modified by breeding is a fact. Anything beyond that is belief to counter belief in God.
"What are the testable implications of the existence of God?"
The existence of unfathomable quantities of information in all living things is strong evidence for the existence of a mind wherein all this information first arose. All information, whether natural living or nonliving or obviously human works and arts comes from someone's mind. No one, at any time, has demonstrated that information can arise from anywhere other than a mind, either human minds or God's mind. Anyone that can demonstrate the origin of any information from any other source besides a conscious mind, has disproved that a great mind, namely the mind of God is behind the universe. Even in inanimate objects such as the formation of a Crystal of salt or other minerals contain information in the form of the laws of physics. All laws, whether human or natural, require a lawgiver, one or more persons showing forth the activity of their minds. The only way that Hamlet can know of the existence of Shakespeare is if the author has written himself into the play. God has written himself into the design of the universe.
"Carbon dating is severely flawed."
All radioactive dating is severely flawed because it is based on an assumption. That assumption is that radioactive decay has always, throughout all time, proceeded at exactly the rate we observe today. “Assumption” or “assume” is the scientific way of saying “faith” or “believe”. There is of no way to “prove” or “disprove” this assumption. It just simply believed to be true without proof or evidence that radioactivity and other natural processes have not in fact changed throughout all those ages of time. Any time a theory is based on an assumption, the whole theory stands or falls with such an assumption. A faulty assumption is like a bad foundation of a house. Eventually the house collapses with a big crash.
The evolution/creation debate is a coin whose other side is the theist/atheists debate. Like you said, neither can be proven, but only believed by faith or not. If God, such as described in the Bible exists, he is all-powerful and all-knowing and can do anything at all. This includes making the world look in such a way as to make people think that it evolved without him being involved in any way or having had anything to do with it in any shape or form. Knowing HOW the universe came into existence with us therein, is in my mind not nearly as important as knowing WHY the universe and we are here. When someone gives you a gift of a complex gadget, such as an iPad or iPhone, is your first thought how that gadget came to be, or do you want to know more importantly why it was given to you and what it is good for? By carefully examining and experimenting with your iPad, you will probably discover some uses for it and perhaps even figure out how it works. This is what science does in our life. There is however no way that you can discover, no matter how minutely you examine the device, why the giver has given it to you, you in particular and not somebody else. If the device is very useful to you and improves your life, you may find it within yourself to try and find out who gave it to you and why and possibly give thanks. You may even find yourself wishing that you could get to know the giver personally. As you further explore your iPad, you come across a file in which it is stated that it was originated by the the one who gave you this gift. The text tells you all sorts of things which are completely outside of your knowledge and experience as well as certain things about the Giver that seem rather far out to you and well beyond the understanding of you and your most educated and intellectual friends. There is no way you can discern how that file came to be on your iPad. The only choice you have is to either BELIEVE or not believe that it came from the Giver and is the Truth from and about Him. In my analogy, the device you are given is LIFE and the file from the Giver of life is the Bible and the Giver is GOD.
The Earth is also at the center of the Universe and light travels instantaneously from place to place no matter what distance! These were the assumptions of all scientists who studied these things back a few hundred years ago. “Assume” is the scientific way of saying “believe”, in other words have faith without proof or even reasonable evidence. All humans have faith, even scientists that operate supercomputers. The feed garbage into those supercomputers and get garbage out, naturally. They believe the garbage spewed out by these supercomputers, that is purely mathematical and has absolutely not the slightest connection with what's really out there. Today these mainstream scientists assume that the electric interaction is not in operation on a cosmic scale. They believe this, contrary to lots of evidence that tells us that ain't so. Science and religion are not as far apart as you and many others like to believe.
It is certainly true that the human being is incurably religious. This characteristic has never been observed in other creatures. The “how” questions and the “why” questions are identical twins that are joined at the hip. Evolutionists try desperately to explain the existence of life in all its complexity without reference to God. I am not familiar with the other religions, but I do know that the God of the Bible challenges humans to observe his creation and then give him the credit and honor due. People don't like it when someone or something else is given credit for their creative work. God clearly tells us in the Bible, that he doesn't like it either. It is one thing for a scientist to explain how a living organism works or how a law of physics operates, but it is quite another to attribute the origin of the organism or the law to someone other than the true originator of both. In the study of origins, science is no longer studying “how”, but “why” and when this organism or law first came into existence. At that point, scientists are stepping onto the turf of theologians.
A big problem with present-day cosmology is that it fundamentally assumes that our galaxy and the universe as a whole operate primarily by the force of gravity, because that is the dominant force apparent in the solar system today. Gravity only dominates in places that are essentially electrically neutral, like the Earth, the moon and the planets. Most of the mass of the universe is electrically charged plasma carrying immense electrical currents. When the current density of plasma is low, it is said to be operating in dark mode. As the current density increases, it enters glow mode, like a neon sign. We see evidences of this electrical glow in the aurora borealis excited by electrical currents from the sun. Instruments like the Hubble space telescope bring back beautiful, fantastic images of glowing plasmas in the depths of space. When the current density in a plasma as well as the density of the plasma itself gets to a certain point, arc discharges take place. On Earth, lightning is a natural arc discharge. Arc welding and arc lamps are examples of human use of plasma arcs. From electrical engineering and physics we have learned that in order to have an electrical current, it is necessary to have a driving voltage for that current. It has also been demonstrated that electric currents always have an associated magnetic field. We have also learned that when a charged particle undergoes acceleration or deceleration, it radiates photons, that is electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays and light. The cosmic background radiation is generated by these large currents throughout all of space. In most of space, the plasma and current density is very low, but space is very big. Free flowing electrical currents through space tend to concentrate by their self generated magnetic fields into a phenomenon that is known as a “z-pinch”, where the current and the matter density is high enough to make bright electrical arcs. We call these are points “stars”. Our Sun is one of hundreds of billions of these. Galaxies rotate because of the existence of huge rivers of electric current by the same principles as a Homo polar motor. An everyday example of such a motor is the electric meter by means of which the power company figures out how much to charge you for electricity. Because of the rotation of the galaxies is so much faster than a gravity only model would permit, cosmologists have to invent fictional dark matter to create the gravity that would be required to allow such fast rotation. In the electric model, the rotation speed of the galaxy is simply a function of the total amount of current flowing in that particular galactic circuit. There still are many questions in the electrical theory of the universe, but it is able to give much simpler, down-to-earth explanations for the “strange and weird” behavior of the universe.
Einstein definitely believed in a God who was a person. He was skeptical of quantum theory and said once, “God does not play dice”. Impersonal God's, don't play anything, only personal beings can to things like play dice.
If the so-called “God” that can be grasped and understood by human reason, then by definition he/she is not a God. Human reason is very limited, but the real God, by definition cannot be limited by mere human reasonings, because then human reason itself becomes God. Science is limited to that part of reality which our senses and the extensions thereof can perceive. When someone tells you something outside of your understanding and experience, you can choose to flatly refuse to believe, believe what that person tells you because you trust them, or simply ignore what you were told. In the end, it does not matter what you believe, but WHOM you believe. You can believe what reason tells you or you can believe what faith tells you. It's your choice.
There are many aspects to the electric universe theory. Accepted science today tells us that the energy of the sun comes from an internal fusion reaction. In recent years, modern solar observation satellites have brought back much data which is confusing and puzzling if attempts are made to explain it by the generally accepted theories. Here is an article you can read:
http://www.thunderbolts.info/wp/2011/12/08/our-mysterious-and-variable-sun/
There are many other excellent articles on this theory, but some of them are rather complicated.
When matter and antimatter collide, the reaction products include ordinary light, usually in the x-ray spectrum. This has been experimentally verified with particle accelerators.