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Regarding number 3, I should probably be in the same place since I hang around here and have had a bit of both biology and astronomy and astrophysics in school,

Regarding number 3, I should probably be in the same place since I hang around here and have had a bit of both biology and astronomy and astrophysics in school, except 2 things: - Besides it being massively useful[1] I've experienced too many weird coincidences now. So many that I cannot in good faith say I think it is just placebo or just survivorship bias. - Recently I have also realized that if I were to leave my religion and believe in Big Bang as the sole explanation that would also be a belief. Just because it is now as common as Catholicism once was doesn't mean it isn't also a set of more or less fundamentally unprovable beliefs. Do I recommend it to others? Well. I don't recommend hasting into something. Definitely not letting others use it to assume power of your life. But if anyone experience the same as I did, that life just doesn't work, yes, my life has massively improved, and if you wonder how to start, ask the $deity of your tradition in private and say you are seriously interested. If that doesn't work try mine (I just asked "God" in the language of my childhood.) [1]: A framework for delaying gratification is massively useful. Also I married someone with a long history of the same belief and there are so many problems I don't have to worry about.

hanspeter 5y ago
I hope noone _believes_ in Big Bang. It's a hypothesis about the origins of the visible universe with a lot of observational data to support it. Nothing more. It creates just as many questions as it answers, and it's as useful for an explanation on our greatest existential questions as the hypothesis that we live on a spherical body suspended by gravity in vacuum and not on a flat disk supported by four giant turtles.
- skinkestek 5y ago
  Exactly. And if anyone goes back and checks my comments they will not find any comments denying Big Bang, in fact I can comment fine on both evolution and big bang, my religion doesn't quite care exactly how the world was created and after all "all models are wrong, but some are useful". What I meant is that a number of people will believe Big Bang as a form of magical creation story that somehow proofs nothing else can be true way stronger than the average Muslim or Christian around here it seems.

hanspeter 5y ago

I hope noone _believes_ in Big Bang. It's a hypothesis about the origins of the visible universe with a lot of observational data to support it. Nothing more. It creates just as many questions as it answers, and it's as useful for an explanation on our greatest existential questions as the hypothesis that we live on a spherical body suspended by gravity in vacuum and not on a flat disk supported by four giant turtles.

skinkestek 5y ago
Exactly. And if anyone goes back and checks my comments they will not find any comments denying Big Bang, in fact I can comment fine on both evolution and big bang, my religion doesn't quite care exactly how the world was created and after all "all models are wrong, but some are useful". What I meant is that a number of people will believe Big Bang as a form of magical creation story that somehow proofs nothing else can be true way stronger than the average Muslim or Christian around here it seems.