Sorry Stella, I just saw your post now. I'm having company over and can't post much before we go out for the evening.
No worries, hope you had a nice time!
I don't have time to go into detail right now. But, besides the lack of conclusive evidence, other than bible assertions*, there is also the specificity of god's interest and preference in/of humanity above all other forms of life in a, for all intents and purposes, limitless universe; and the imposing of human-like qualities on a supreme deity.
I'd go into further detail but it will have to wait until I have more time as this could branch off into many different areas of debate.
*I'm speaking strictly of the bible assertion to the existence of the biblical version of god and not addressing any other claims regarding other items- to avoid any tangent argument
Sounds interesting!
YR, please feel free to start new threads on each assertion you have in mind and it might help us not to get too side-tracked or go off on tangents.
OK I only watched a little more so far but here are some questions I have:
Early in that guy's talk, he says this about
NOTHING:
"nothing is a boiling bubbling brew of virtual particles popping in and out of existence in a time-scale so short you can't see them."
"we can't measure virtual particles directly but we can measure their effects indirectly."
"nothing weighs something."My question here is that how can he call the above
nothing when it is something?
He also says:
"The universe is expanding"
"We know how many protons and neutrons are in the universe."
He also talks about Hubble had inaccurate equipment which we based equations upon. He said now we have better equipment but indicated it's not perfect.
My question here is how can we assume that equations subsequentially based upon this information (which is not 100% accurate) are accurate?
Later he says nothing is: "zero total energy plus quantum fluctuations (can produce a universe)."
How can he call that "nothing?"