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"Science taught me that it's all just atoms and the void, so there can't be any deeper point or purpose to the whole thing; the kind of meaning most people year
by jononomo 3y ago
"Science taught me that it's all just atoms and the void, so there can't be any deeper point or purpose to the whole thing; the kind of meaning most people yearn for — Ultimate Meaning — simply doesn't exist."
Sheesh, what kind of BS science did this guy get taught? Science discovered the Big Bang, which is essentially a proof of God's existence, and the more science we do around the molecular biology and the origin of life the more obvious it becomes that life was intelligently designed. At this point the existence of life can be considered a definitive proof of the existence of God.
This guy got a second-rate science education for sure.
- nurettin 3y ago"Big bang cosmology proves (my particular brand of) The Almighty God" is what is known in the academia as "Facebook science". It may sound great, it may conform to your beliefs, it may be satisfying to say, and feel just right. But I'd imagine out of the thousands upon thousands of papers published on the topic of big bang cosmology, there would be just one which says "oh and by the way this is definitive proof that a God exists". And none do.
- jononomo 3y agoYou do realize why the term "The Big Bang" was coined, right?
- nurettin 3y agoYes, Fred Hoyle was making fun of the concept on a radio show.
- jononomo 3y agoWhy was he making fun of it?
- nurettin 3y agoI think he was satirizing the public understanding of the theory where people think the universe just magically popped into existence.
- jononomo 3y agoNo, that was his own objection to it. He ridiculed the theory because he (incorrectly) thought that a theory that implied a God was repugnant to science. It turns out that the science won out, however, and now "The Big Bang" is widely accepted, in spite of its implications.
- nurettin 3y agoOf course they had disagreements and Hoyle was voicing his opinion on that. Except, as Lemaitre himself said on multiple occasions, the theory didn't imply any god at all. And his colleagues, being physicists and all, knew that. So it is my understanding that the target of this ridicule is the willfully ignorant public.