From God's Laboratory...
Published August 29, 2005
The age of the Earth is estimated to be 4.55 billion years (a figure determined by C.C. Patterson, in 1956, using Uranium-Lead dating on fragments of a meteorite). We are living on a planet that is 233,000 times older than we are (the bones of early humans found in Herto, Ethiopia are believed to be 195,000 years old).
In those 4.549 billion years (the time we took to come into the world), I wonder, if we (assuming we were we) went through many phases of endure-only-to-vanish eras. Imagine, if the [earlier] world had it all figured out - Newtonian Laws, Theories of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Elements, Galaxies, Atoms, Electricity, Automobiles, F-16s, Refrigerators, Mobile Phones, I-Pods, Robots, Clones, Beer - only to wake up one day to a [clumsy] God who accidentally pressed the reset button last night.
Many scientists, including the likes of Newton and Einstein, strongly believed in God. In fact, Einstein refused to accept the theories established through Quantum Mechanics only because he couldn't comprehend the thought of God having a different set of rules for the Universe at large and another for the things at small scale. To him that was like God playing dice with the Universe.
Being such believers in God, did they never wonder (do you ever wonder?), if God could one day decide to create the Universe and eventually the Earth, which now is a world full of us, thinking animals (no pun-intended), why could she [God] have not tried this more than once? After all, in a game of dice, one rolls again if one scores a perfect square. And with a world so amazing, living in the Universe so abstract, God has long scored a perfect square.
- From God's Laboratory...
- Published: August 29, 2005
- Type: Opinion
- Section: Culture
- Filed Under: Culture: Religion
- Writer: Tarun
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hey! just because there isn't actual tangible proof that God exists doesn't mean he doesn't exist...wait, i think i'm contradicting myself here.
look at it this way.
Do you really think that all the people who belive in God are stupid to do so? I mean, if its a trick, then it has surely fooled many people. Is it really possible to fool so many people? Then again who came up with the trick? If whoever is reading this doesn't have actual tangible proof, then i guess i wasn't contradicting myself. Even if i was, i still think its better to stick with God just to be on the safe side (consider the consequences if he really did exist, and YOU didn't believe it). He would 'kick ur ass', karate i'll kick ur ass.
Most Christians, Jews, and Muslims believe that God is omniscient (all-knowing) and omnipotent (all-powerful). If God were taking creation seriously, He wouldn't need to reroll the dice. It's always tough to separate omniscience from omnipotence, but I think a god with either quality could create what he wanted on the first try.
I would imagine that the Buddhist, who doesn't believe in the material world, would find the question meaningless. In Hinduism, depending on how you interpret it, Vishnu can keep dreaming over and over, or Vishnu has to dream the same thing over and over, or Vishnu has one dream in which we cycle over and over.
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ok first, god isnt real. he did not create the universe, the earth , humans or anything eles thats out there, because he isnt real. the reason everything is there is because the combustion in the universe. heat can do wonders u no. and nearly everything is made out of a gas in the end so wen the condidtions are right, BAM, theres the starts and BAM, theres life.