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Atheist Penelope
Pypoli:
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--- Quote from: Surgoshan on 25 Jul 2009, 07:56 ---That's just it; you can get as existential as you want, but the only evidence we will ever have will be scientific.
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Even if all other phenomena could be explained perfectly via scientific methods, the final brute fact will remain that this universe exists. It is equally a leap of faith to believe in self-existent or spontaneously generated matter as to believe in a self-existent God. Ultimately, the only truly valuable evidence is either historical or personal.
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My view of the universe is as an eternally existing cycle. There is no starting point, there is no ending point. The universe explodes and expands till, according to the law of entropy, everything slows down to a stand still. At this point I make my own leap of faith. I believe, that we underestimate the force of gravity, and that an incredibly large black hole, like the one at the center of our galaxy will slowly pull back everything in the universe to itself, slowly agglomerating into a new potential big bang, until it has once again gathered to much matter in one place and explodes again.
Now at this point in time, science disproves my theory. It is however, what i choose to believe because it is the only thing that makes sense to me. By choosing not to believe in a god, i have also chosen not to believe in spontaneous creation of matter, and therefore a never ending cycle is the only thing that makes sense to me. There can be no starting point, and there can be no ending. There can only be periods of time identifiable by significant events (explosion, stop, agglomeration).
I realize it is being somewhat hypocritical, as I choose to not believe in what science thinks to be fact at this point, when as an atheist, science should be my referal. But i choose not to blindly beleive in anything, religion, or science. Sadly, as an atheist, I also believe i will never get to know wether or not I am right.
Delirium:
So everything that has happened, has happened before, and will happen again?
Oh man. That sucks.
Pypoli:
--- Quote from: Delirium on 27 Jul 2009, 01:32 ---So everything that has happened, has happened before, and will happen again?
Oh man. That sucks.
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Oh no. Just because the major events of the universe like the explosion and agglomeration happen repeatedly doesn't mean that everything else is on repeat. The minute details are allways different.
Delirium:
given enough cycles of bangs and crunches, the laws of probability dictate events will repeat themselves.
Surgoshan:
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it in summer school.
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