It does? Why?
Because it is assuming causality when it seems very unlikely to apply.
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It does? Why?
When have I said that the universe is finite?
I said that it is finite into the past.
Space-time had a beginning at T = 0. It is currently 13.7 billion years old, according to current understanding. That's a finite age.
Nice strawman. But it i s nice that you are finally admitting that you are a conspiracy theorist.Ever heard it said you can never win an argument with a conspiracy theorist?
Claim 1 - There was no catastrophe in the Jordan Plain - it's just a myth
Claim 2 - So yes, something DID happen in the Jordan Plain, but the myth was built around this event.
What does it take for YOU to be 'convinced' the Abrahamic story was true. Genesis said it happened at night. Abraham was on the lee side of the mountain range and Lot was in Zoar, down south. There was an exodus from the region afterwards.
I can be satisfied with "We don't know yet". The "yet" is a very important part of the answer since it implies that people are looking for an answer.My main concern here is that when quantum effects are included, it is quite possible that time can be extended back further, potentially infinitely far into the past. In that case, the start of the expansion becomes some sort of phase transition.
But you are correct in the classical theory.
Nice strawman. But it i s nice that you are finally admitting that you are a conspiracy theorist.
Top bad that you still do not understand the concept of evidence. Right now you have none. All you have is an ad hoc explanation. No scholar takes those seriously.;
What would it take for me to take the myth seriously? Actual evidence support your story. Learn what evidence is and then you might be able to find some.
Ever heard it said you can never win an argument with a conspiracy theorist?
Claim 1 - There was no catastrophe in the Jordan Plain - it's just a myth
Claim 2 - So yes, something DID happen in the Jordan Plain, but the myth was built around this event.
What does it take for YOU to be 'convinced' the Abrahamic story was true. Genesis said it happened at night. Abraham was on the lee side of the mountain range and Lot was in Zoar, down south. There was an exodus from the region afterwards.
Sorry, you need to prove that you have an eyewitness. Claims of eyewitness testimony is not eyewitness testimony.Ok, there's a claim that a story was historic. The plains of Jordan were struck at night. One eyewitness was on the lee side of the mountains near Jericho. His brother in law was in the southen city of Zoar. In the morning a witness climbed to a high point and stated that the scene was like the smoke of a furnace.
Later some evidence turned up that this might have been the site of an air burst, and 50,000 people died. The evidence will take a decade or so to be confirmed or dismissed. But if it does then we should accept the Genesis account - and as a result of this our main witness joined the exodus of people from the area.
No conspiracy. The only conspiracy was this was all crafted a thousand years later, when there would no longer be any live history.
Ok, there's a claim that a story was historic. The plains of Jordan were struck at night. One eyewitness was on the lee side of the mountains near Jericho. His brother in law was in the southen city of Zoar. In the morning a witness climbed to a high point and stated that the scene was like the smoke of a furnace.
Later some evidence turned up that this might have been the site of an air burst, and 50,000 people died. The evidence will take a decade or so to be confirmed or dismissed. But if it does then we should accept the Genesis account - and as a result of this our main witness joined the exodus of people from the area.
No conspiracy. The only conspiracy was this was all crafted a thousand years later, when there would no longer be any live history.
There would have been oral traditions that lasted for quite a long period of time. And the legend would grow with the retelling.
A story saying that a particular person witnessed the event in question would be *exactly* the type of story that would be made up for dramatic effect.
So even if the meteor explanation of Tell Hammam is correct (which is being debated currently), it still does not prove that the eye witness aspect is historic as opposed to legend. And it certainly does not imply that any supernatural event took place. Quite the contrary.
Sorry, you need to prove that you have an eyewitness. Claims of eyewitness testimony is not eyewitness testimony.
And where did you get the number 50,000 from? All I see are holes here.
And you still do not have a testable hypothesis. Therefore you do not have evidence.
Well first of all, the theorem only has one condition in order for it to hold...which is that the average Hubble expansion is greater than zero.
Proof? What date did Lower Egypt fall to the Hyksos? Which chronology do you use for this determination? What is the precise date of the supposed meteor event? How do you determine that?No other nations recorded this event. It would have impacted Egypt because the same year as this putative air burst Lower Egypt fell to the 'Hyksos.' Coincidence?
Probably, but we can't be sure. Truth is there would have been many refugees from this event, and they have finally overwhelmed Egypt.
Same with the cultic center of Shiloh - we read only that the Ark of the Covenant was taken, nothing else. That was a good 600 years before the so-called writing of the bible, and in Babylon times Shiloh was just a hill, a tell actually - and in it they found the actual shrine and the 'horns of the altar' and Mosaic sacrifice in the way beasts were butchered. I doubt all these accounts somehow were handed down as myths - I hold they were written down at the time or shortly thereafter, just as many nations do with significant events.
That is not true. You only need that to have an ad hoc explanation. That does not make it evidence. Evidence needs the ability to cut both ways. You are forming a narrative after the fact. You cherry pick observations that support your ad hoc explanation. That is not how evidence works. Scientists realized how people do not reason rationally at all times. The formalized evidence a bit more. There one has to put their money where their mouth is. One has to say "if we see this it supports my claim, if we see this instead it refutes my claim". What observations would show your idea to be wrong? They need to be reasonable tests. You cannot rely on others to refute your test for you.I only have to find melted ceramics, splintered bone or shocked quartz to have 'evidence.'
Proof, no, not yet, but sure... evidence.
So did you get that nonsense from Hamza Tzortzis?
The muslim copycat of william lame craig. lol
Anyhow, the question is nonsensical.
If there is an indentation, then there is a gravity source.
The gravity pulls the ball down and then the indentation happens.
This sequence of events requires time.
You, and Hamza, wish to ignore that inconvenient step. So you make it an imaginary "eternal" bowling ball on an "eternal cushion". You need to resort to that kind of nonsense to pretend as if causality doesn't require a sequence of events in temporal context.
Invoking magic and fantasy is all you can do to defend that.
You say it's "obvious", but the very properties of the universe that are required for the phenomenon of causality to manifest, do not exist when the universe doesn't exist.
That your mind, which evolved to avoid being eaten by lions - not to understand weird quantum physics and alike - can't wrap itself around that is irrelevant.
Physics is full of stuff that we can't wrap our minds around, but which are nevertheless true.
Forensic science would be crime investigation based on evidence and scientific rules for evidence. And the reason why that is the standard today, is because it is a more reliable method of inquiry.
Having said that, your comment makes no sense.
Reasoning based on evidence is very different from the type of "philosophical problems" you are talking about with respect to the frontiers of physics.
Having said that... both of those are fictional characters.
Funny how every "example" you give to make your points, come from fantasy and imagination. Like your "eternal bowling ball" that you (or rather: Hamza) invented while ignoring gravitational forces to make some silly point about causality
Even if I would throw you a bone and agree that "philosophy" was how they solved crimes before the development of methods used today in forensics... once more, the only reason why those methods are used today, is because they are more reliable.
I didn't say the universe is finite. I don't know if it is. There's nothing in physics that stops it from being infinite.
Anyhow, I fail to see what that has to do with the point that quantum physics is spooky.
I agree there is an explanation for why the universe is the way it is.
However, that doesn't follow from "it is finite".
Additionally, quantum physics most certainly is involved in that explanation.
Several models do exactly that.
But more importantly, are you saying that "the designer dun it" DOES explain it?
No. Quantum physics is very real. Your internet device would not function if it wasn't.
You present those reasons?
I know it doesn't change anything. You'll just move your god backwards and plant him/her/it at the next gap in knowledge.
And then excuse him from every rule you imposed on everything else with a special pleading argument.
Having said that, according to many other physicists it can be eternal. According to even others it doesn't exist at all and the univese is in an eternal cycle of big bangs.
It is off course to be expected that you'll pick the ones that say something you can use to "fit" with your a priori beliefs. I expect nothing else.
Off course, you still have the very same problem.
You jump from "there is an unknown beginning" to "therefor, my god".
No reason, no evidence, nothing. Just confirmation bias.
/facepalm
It's clear you have very little understanding of how science works.
They gather evidence.
Then they build testable models to explain that evidence.
They are testable because they make predictions.
In physics models, these predictions can flow from the math.
The multi-verse is such a prediction. It's the math itself that does this.
Other aspects of the math ARE testable.
When those check out, then they are indirect evidence for the prediction that you can't test due to logistical restrains (like the multi-verse - we can't poke "outside" of it, whatever that means).
And they are.
The plausibility is demonstrated by the supporting data and the successes of testing predictions.
Tell me, how is a designer "plausible"? Which tests demonstrate it as plausible?
Physicists are working on answering that question.
The origins of the universe are currently unknown.
And even that isn't universally true either.
First, nothing really "begins" to exist in the universe as everything is for the most part just reallocation of already existing things.
Second, this gets fishy at the quantum level, to say the least.
Third, this is a statement about what you see IN the universe. To the extent that it is true, it is only so inside the universe as it manifests through the physics of the universe.
No universe = no physics of the universe = no manifestations of phenomenon produced by the physics of the universe.
When have I said that the universe is finite?
I said that it is finite into the past.
Space-time had a beginning at T = 0. It is currently 13.7 billion years old, according to current understanding. That's a finite age.
That's when the space-time continuum started.
That is the point that time started flowing. The start of time.
So indeed: go back in time. Pick any point in time. The universe existed then.
So how is it wrong to say that the universe always existed? Since "always" here literally means "for all of time"?
I do.
You don't seem to understand what "time" means.
Again:
1. always = for all of time.
2. time = inherent part of the universe. The space-time continuum.
3. Time started when the universe came into existence at T = 0, 13.7 billion years ago. Thus finite into the past (not necessarily into the future...)
Therefor, whenever there was time, there was a universe. If there's a universe, there is time.
Consider the universe to be a coin and space being one side and time being the other side.
Remove the coin = remove the sides. And you can't have just 1 side.
The coin doesn't exist without the sides.
The sides don't exist without the coin.
If one is present, so is necessarily the other. They are different aspects of the same thing.
So... for all of time, the universe existed.
Whenever there was time, there was a universe.
Hence, the universe always existed.
There is..
1. The BGV theorem stops it from being infinite.
2. The second law of thermodynamics implies that it can't be infinite.
And if that isn't enough..
3. The philosophical arguments against infinite regress stops it from being infinite.
So, you are simply WRONG.
And those are three different lines of argumentation, which means that even if you were to offer a sound critique to one, the others would still stand.
And come to think about it, I don't even think you can offer a sound critique to even one of the three.
Quantum Physics of the Gaps.
Quantum physics of the gaps.
Which models do that? Which model has empirically verifiable data that has trumped the standard big bang model?
The fine-tuning required for the universe/life to exist is that of an engineer...and engineers are intelligent.
Ok...so here is a challenge.
I challenge you explain the origins of my internet device...but the catch is; the answer that you provide has to exist within the device. No explanation which is external to the device can be given.
Go. Explain it.
Been there, done that.
The BGV theorem applies to virtually all viable models. And again, you have to do more than just offer possibilities.
Mere possibilities ain't evidence. You have to provide actual EVIDENCE that your hypothesis is true...and neither you nor anyone else have been able to do that.
Opinions.
I already stated that, even under multiverse scenarios, they either..
1. Must have had a beginning.
2. Must have been fined-tuned.
There is no escape. You can continue trying to keep your multiverse dream alive, but it is dead.
Data such as? The multiverse is purely speculative. There is no evidence supporting it. We cannot see beyond the observable universe, and if you can't see beyond it, how do you know that anything is out there to begin with?
Spirits aren't something you can put in a test tube.
But you got problems...because...
1. The first law only comes into play AFTER the universe began to exist in the first place...so the question of origins is not negated.
2. You can't have an infinite amount of reallocations over an infinite amount of times. Logically impossible.
So either way, your logic fails.
When things get tough, appeal to quantum physics to save the day!!!
I agree.
Sorry, but you are contradicting yourself, sir.
You can't logically say the universe has a finite age, but then turn around and say that it is infinite (reallocations of matter).
True statements don't contradict each other...but false statements do...and yours...do.
"The universe has always existed".
"The universe is only 13.7 billion years old".
That is like saying..
"I have always been married".
"I have always been single".
Fallacious...and disgusting.
I agree.
You just said the age of the universe is finite, though.
Makes no sense.