Re:Ask HN: Why do you believe that your religion/faith/world...
by agitator on Thursday October 19, 2017 @04:55PM
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Crediting our lack of understanding of the universe to a higher power is like assigning thunder and lightening to Zeus. Now we know better.
Re:Ask HN: Why do you believe that your religion/faith/world...
by owebmaster on Thursday October 19, 2017 @05:13PM
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Do we? The definition of an atom in the 1900s was wrong, but it was science at the time. In 50 years, a lot of scientific definitions will radically change but people keep saying that science > religion.
Some things that confuse me are the stories of a global flood occurring and as a result all humans deriving from noah. Why God seems to be amazing when it comes to math and science and yet He spends a lot of his interaction with us on the foibles of man because we are obviously flawed creatures ( I know that I am ). As though He is surprised by how wretched and evil we are at times.
Evolution just seems to be the self generative and adaptive mechanistic process by which God seems to build complex from the simple. I think that doing it this way is harder than to just produce fully formed complex systems whole cloth. It is actually a more thought out and elegant method of producing robust survivable beings.
Just as an aside, it almost seems to me that when he created this universe, He first started with what a human needs to be in order to have dexterity (fingers etc..), intelligence, communication (vocal cords) and so on. Working backwards creating a physical programming language(dna,rna) that synthesizes molecules tailored exactly so for biochemical systems, to atoms to subatomic particles and the forces/fields that govern/marshal these discrete particles.
Amazingly, these 92 elements had to be created in generations of stars and neutron stars as only the simple element hydrogen existed.
sorry for rambling on.