The Universe

naomi24 | 10:27 Tue 17th Jan 2012 | Religion & Spirituality

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I watched last night's Stargazing Live (BBC2), and as always when I see programmes of this sort, the content, and the photography in particular, left me awestruck. How can anyone possibly believe that all of this vast magnificence is the handiwork of a petty-minded, vindictive, narcissistic God like Yahweh, whom in one instance, the bible tells us, was incapable of defeating chariots of iron? Additionally, is something that is capable of creating such enormously beautiful and powerful splendour really so personally insecure that it needs the inhabitants of one speck of dust among all that wonder to constantly reassure it? Is it really concerned with our pathetic differences of opinion - or our sex lives for that matter? Instead of spending much of their time with closed eyes and bowed heads, or lying flat on their faces in wretched submission to nothing, perhaps it would serve humanity better if people of religion abandoned their selfish concerns for the eventual fate of their own sorry souls, and opened their eyes to look upwards - and to use their precious intellect to think about what's really there.

Is it time to hang up my guitars?

Who can tell the future?

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jason.p

Sith. //and if it did happen "by itself" why? //
This is probably the most fundamental question of all.
We all need to have some answer to this. You obviously have settled for the hand of God, and I respect you for that.
My initial response is "Why not". If you believe that the laws of physics are immutable then the consequences of the big bang are inevitable. (as to the big bang see your previous thread). I believe science will answer your question, you believe the question has already been answered.

ludwig

// ludwig, something just happening doesnt make musch sence. //

I'll be honest, not being a physicist, the scientific explanation of how the universe was created doesn't make much sense to me either. But just because I don't understand it, I don't feel a need to fill that lack of understanding with something comforting like a creator being.

I'm happy to just say it is what it is, it's a wonderful mystery. Maybe one day we'll have all the answers, and maybe not.

Ankou

i go along with the view that the "big bang was not the beginning of time but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles of evolution, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets".

if you are crediting a creator can you put a timeline on it for us.

naomi24

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^^ Who is that to?

DTCwordfan

ditto Ankou......it's a simple concept that many have difficulty with: there never has been a beginning and there will never be an end to the Universe. There is constant change.

sandyRoe

And throughout the millenia of change there is God's constant love, shining like a lighthouse, guiding us to our Heavenly home.

Ankou

sandy, if i am going to a heavenly home i quite like the idea of being sent up in a rocket or a balloon. james may did it with some pet ashes on tv a few weeks back, with little cameras on them, gps and a photo of the pet flying up into the stratosphere on balloons filled with gasses. when they eventually popped, the devices fell to earth and the video film remained for ever more. it really was quite an inticing option.

i can't open youtube, but i think this is a clip.