A Scientist Visits Kentucky's Creation Museum

I told you why. You can have differing theories for the same thing. Why can't you accept that? The "beginning" of the universe is an excellent example. Not all theories can be right, maybe none are. IF you choose to believe one it's by faith, not science.
Different scientific theories for the same thing? If such a situation exists they are not believed.

Again, no one believes a scientific theory that will never be proven. Well not if they know how the system works. They accept that by scientific consensus it is the best present knowledge/explanation.

Show me someone who believes they know how the universe began, that will be a crank. It's not likely to be a scientist.
 
During the 60-70s the prevalent theory was that the planet was cooling and if we didn't adopt socialist policies we would be facing the next ice age.
No, that's not true. The bulk of scientific papers at that time did not predict global cooling. That was a few newspaper articles.


What 1970s science said about global cooling

http://www.skepticalscience.com

The paper surveys climate studies from 1965 to 1979 (and in a refreshing change to other similar surveys, lists all the papers). They find very few papers (7 in total) predict global cooling. This isn't surprising. What surprises is that even in the 1970s, on the back of 3 decades of cooling, more papers (42 in total) predict global warming due to CO2 than cooling.
 
As a matter of curiosity, what are the different scientific theories about the 'beginning' of the universe?
 
Hmmm, compelling. Don't know that I've seen any scientific papers published on that one.

But anyway, this god dude, he's not part of the universe?
 
You guys have such a shallow understanding of both science and religion. You act as they are both some monolithic concepts that completely agree. Not all religions agree. Not all scientific theories agree.

until you guys begin to recognize nuances in human thought you won't get far in discussing it
Not all scientific theories agree? What the fuck are you talking about? Give some examples. I need a good laugh.
Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity.
That's the problem with your kind. You go and find something you think "fits" but you don't actually know anything about it. In fact you don't know much of anything.

But let me help you out a little:

Remember, Einstein only discovered General Relativity a quarter way through the last century. A blink of an eye considering human history. The theory hopefully helps us to understand the big stuff: stars, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, on to the entire universe. And even Einstein didn't believe his own theory. He thought the universe was infinite and unchanging. In his equations, he used "K" for the "universal constant". It was Hubble and his work that physically proved Einstein wrong. Try to figure out why dunce. Hint, what was Hubble famous four? That proves that science is ever changing as understanding grows from discovery. Religion doesn't change. Duh.

Quantum Mechanics is about the "little stuff". Like molecules, atoms, and even tinier stuff like electrons and quarks. Republicans think "quarks" are the sounds ducks make.

So the two theories, WHICH ARE STILL BEING DEVELOPED, don't agree. Yet.

Republicans are so fucking stupid, they don't give scientists credit for anything because scientists don't know everything. Republicans and conservatives are just laughable people.

I'm not a physicist and I am in awe of their brilliance. Republicans, people who put a young earther in charge of the US science committee, think physicists are over educated and without common sense. Worse, they become angry and defensive when people call conservatives fools. Well, I think fools is being polite.
My 'kind.' Why aren't you the bigoted moron today. It seems you simply have no idea what you are talking about.

You asked for scientific theories that do not agree. I gave you 2 that clearly do not agree. That is simple fact. As of this point, it look like Einstein was incorrect and we are just discovering why and how recently. The idea that science does not contradict itself is completely asinine. Science regularly comes of with differing theories to explain data sets and is always in the process of eliminating one or the other with ever increasing data/testing. That is the entire point of science.
 
If you believe in an unproven theory you have no high ground in claiming a secular cause as "science" while the theist is surrendering the ability to think. It's arrogant and a misuse of the word science.
Again, no scientific theory is ever proven. A scientific theory is simply the best available knowledge/explanation until better knowledge/explanations come along. You've been told this, how come you can't accept it?
I told you why. You can have differing theories for the same thing. Why can't you accept that? The "beginning" of the universe is an excellent example. Not all theories can be right, maybe none are. IF you choose to believe one it's by faith, not science.
And what you seem to be missing is that science is not predicated on 'believing' one theory or another at all. What you are trying to do is take religion and cram it into science. The two do not work the same and, quite frankly, have nothing to do with one another. Religion requires faith and belief in its tenants. Science CANNOT have faith or belief - to do so would negate it as scientific. Those theories that disagree are simply the best we have until one data set or test comes along to eliminate the incorrect theory. Even then, the first thing that occurs is the hunt for yet another possibility (another theory) as well as more testing the current best model.
 
If you believe in an unproven theory you have no high ground in claiming a secular cause as "science" while the theist is surrendering the ability to think. It's arrogant and a misuse of the word science.
Again, no scientific theory is ever proven. A scientific theory is simply the best available knowledge/explanation until better knowledge/explanations come along. You've been told this, how come you can't accept it?
I told you why. You can have differing theories for the same thing. Why can't you accept that? The "beginning" of the universe is an excellent example. Not all theories can be right, maybe none are. IF you choose to believe one it's by faith, not science.
And what you seem to be missing is that science is not predicated on 'believing' one theory or another at all. What you are trying to do is take religion and cram it into science. The two do not work the same and, quite frankly, have nothing to do with one another. Religion requires faith and belief in its tenants. Science CANNOT have faith or belief - to do so would negate it as scientific. Those theories that disagree are simply the best we have until one data set or test comes along to eliminate the incorrect theory. Even then, the first thing that occurs is the hunt for yet another possibility (another theory) as well as more testing the current best model.
Which religion have I promoted? I posted the definition of science and made it clear that's how I choose to use the word. You are restating what I said, that is, if one has a belief in a competing theory, that ISN'T science. Thanks.

In this case we are talking about origins, first cause, creation, whatever you want to call it. There is no test or observation, period. What I see is a lot knee jerk of defensive posturing.
 
In this case we are talking about origins, first cause, creation, whatever you want to call it. There is no test or observation, period.
As a matter of interest, do you think the Big Bang Theory is based on no observation?

You didn't specify the competing scientific theories you implied existed btw, I'm curious as to what they are. Any chance of a list?
 
In this case we are talking about origins, first cause, creation, whatever you want to call it. There is no test or observation, period.
As a matter of interest, do you think the Big Bang Theory is based on no observation?

You didn't specify the competing scientific theories you implied existed btw, I'm curious as to what they are. Any chance of a list?
I was talking about ORIGINS. It's very hard to communicate with you guys. The Big Bang Theory does not explain origins and there are numerous theories, as I mentioned EARLIER. Parallel, bubble, recycling, etc. universe(s).
 
Ah. I do not consider them to be scientific theories. If you do I understand your confusion.

Nor do I understand how parallel, bubble etc explain origin as you imply.
 
That may be the case, or it may be that you can't explain what you want to say, or that what you want to say does not match reality.
 
If you believe in an unproven theory you have no high ground in claiming a secular cause as "science" while the theist is surrendering the ability to think. It's arrogant and a misuse of the word science.
Again, no scientific theory is ever proven. A scientific theory is simply the best available knowledge/explanation until better knowledge/explanations come along. You've been told this, how come you can't accept it?
in order to a theory a hypothesis needs SOME supporting evidence......it needs to be successfully tested at some point or it never becomes a theory.......why do you pretend this isn't true?......
 
If you believe in an unproven theory you have no high ground in claiming a secular cause as "science" while the theist is surrendering the ability to think. It's arrogant and a misuse of the word science.
Again, no scientific theory is ever proven. A scientific theory is simply the best available knowledge/explanation until better knowledge/explanations come along. You've been told this, how come you can't accept it?
in order to a theory a hypothesis needs SOME supporting evidence......it needs to be successfully tested at some point or it never becomes a theory.......why do you pretend this isn't true?......

You're right that a theory must be successful to remain a theory. It is rigorously tested. But a scientific theory can never be proved to be 100% correct because we don't know what we don't know. Einstein's Theory of Relativity posits that nothing can go faster than the speed light. And so far that seems to be true, but how do we know that is always the case?
 
I said your head was up your ass. How much proof do we need to accept the theory as fact?
You have provided no proof of anything, instead, from what can be understood of your writing, you appear to keep insisting scientific theories can be taken as fact when they are just the best present knowledge/explanation.
 
How do you create something out of nothing?

How?

You tell me. You're the rabbi.

Well I could assume a magic mythical being did it... or I could try to find an answer. What should I do?

A rabbi atheist. Oh mummah...

It's amongst a younger generation of cosmologists, string theorists and bubble universe theorists and the like, where problems with something out of nothing theories are proving most vexing.

There was never "nothing". Matter/energy have always existed and will always exist.
 

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