Pahu;1481986 wrote:
In what way are they false? What are all those possibilities? I only see two; evolution or creation. Every post I have shared shows how science disproves evolution. That leaves creation. Basically before the universe existed there was nothing from which the universe appeared, which is impossible by any natural cause. That leaves a supernatural cause for the existence of the universe. Science backs that up:
Which means that you are admitting exactly what I have accused you of. Having a bi-polar point of view. One view (the scientific version) provides plenty of hard evidence to substantiate its claims, accepted by atheists & members of all sorts of faiths worldwide. Your view, on the other hand has no evidence other than hearsay. You deny the existence of evidence because it doesn't support what you want it to say. Evidence is not intended to prove or disprove anything. It's just like another piece in a jigsaw, making the overall picture clearer. If the generally accepted picture is blue, and yours is red & the piece is blue, you insist the piece doesn't exist. Whereas if you come across one that has a slight hue of pink, then you take that as disproving the existence of the entire blue jigsaw.
As for others theories, there are thousands of them. Just because they exist, though, doesn't make them any more credible. There is, for instance, a theory that neither nor any any of the rest of the Universe really exist at all and that we are only flashes of energy creating a sort of dream world, so that what we see & hear as being physical isn't there at all, but a figment of our imagination in this integrated dream world. I'm not even putting this forward as being a credible alternative. I am merely making the point that there other theories. It's not just a case of being if it's not one then it has to be the other. It's a bit like the search for extra-terrestrial life. No doubt you deny the existence of such a possibility because it doesn't say so in your precious Bible. Well, get this. It doesn't say that there isn't either. Just because we have found it yet doesn't mean that we won't. If you lose your keys at home, do you stop searching after they're not in the first place you look & take the attitude that they're not there, therefore they don't exist?
As for where it says that the earth predated the sun. How about Genesis 1:1 (typically of the Bible, the wording changes in whichever version you choose to read, but for the purposes required here it doesn't really matter as the order of the events in the story remain consistent in all versions).
1. In the beginning, when God created the universe,[a]
2 the earth was formless and desolate. The raging ocean that covered everything was engulfed in total darkness, and the Spirit of God was moving over the water.
3 Then God commanded, “Let there be light—and light appeared.
4 God was pleased with what he saw. Then he separated the light from the darkness,
5 and he named the light “Day and the darkness “Night. Evening passed and morning came—that was the first day.
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https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?s ... ersion=GNT)
Unless you deny also that the Light comes from the Sun, that shows that the Earth predates the Sun, seeing as it was included in 1 & 2. The Sun (Light) didn't into being until 3.
The Universe exists and is real. Every rational person must admit this point. If it did not exist, we would not be here to talk about it. So the question arises, “How did the Universe get here? Did it create itself? If it did not create itself, it must have had a cause.
Fair enough (unless you believe in the Dream World option). Note the key word IF though.
Let’s look at the law of cause and effect. As far as science knows, natural laws have no exceptions. This is definitely true of the law of cause and effect, which is the most universal and most certain of all laws. Simply put, the law of cause and effect states that every material effect must have an adequate cause that existed before the effect.
Material effects without adequate causes do not exist. Also, causes never occur after the effect. In addition, the effect never is greater than the cause. That is why scientists say that every material effect must have an adequate cause. The river did not turn muddy because the frog jumped in; the book did not fall off the table because the fly landed on it. These are not adequate causes. For whatever effects we see, we must present adequate causes.
On the whole, fairly accurate, except for some minor, but important discrepancies. The most important of all being that time here is being viewed as a linear thing. It is not. It is a variable. This much was demonstrated mathematically by Einstein in his Theory of Relativity & later proved by the use of Atomic Clocks. Time is a dimension in its own right. Time as a unit is directly related to light. A Black Hole is known to have such a dense gravitational field that even light cannot escape from it. It is also believed that same is true of Time, inasmuch as time can't escape from a black hole. This means that once it gets to the centre & has nowhere else to go, Time stops. However, as with a pendulum it will first pass one point & then return to the pull of the force, thus time can go backwards. In this way it is possible for an effect to happen before the cause. I know it's a mind boggling concept & not easy to understand, let alone explain.
The other theory, of course, is that over time (linear) these black holes eventually absorb everything there is to absorb (which is possibly a form of your pet word, entropy). Everything gets drawn into an infinitely small existence where even time no longer exists. Then, whether or not it has a reason (as known laws of physics would probably no longer have any meaning) something happens & a chain reaction is initiated, and the Big Bang starts all over again.
At least in the opening sentence to the paragraph (As far as science knows, natural laws have no exceptions) he admits the possibility of exceptions, even if he didn't intend to. What we do know about the Universe compared to that which we don't know is like a molecule of water from the entire oceans on the earth - if that much.
Five-year-olds are wonderful at using the law of cause and effect. We can picture a small child asking: “Mommy, where do peaches come from? His mother says that they come from peach trees. Then the child asks where the trees come from, and his mother explains that they come from peaches. You can see the cycle. Eventually the child wants to know how the first peach tree got here. He can see very well that it must have had a cause, and he wants to know what that cause was.
What then tends to happen is that when Mommy doesn't know the answer either, exasperated she come out & says "The fairies put it there by magic".
One thing is for sure: the Universe did not create itself! We know this for a scientific fact, because matter cannot create matter. If we take a rock that weighs 1 pound and do 50,000 experiments on it, we never will be able to produce more than 1 pound of rock. So, whatever caused the Universe could not have been material.
The fact that is being ignored here is that matter & energy are interchangeable. If a piece of coal burns it converts the potential energy stored within its mass into a multitude of other energy forms in the form of heat, light & sound, but if you weigh the coal afterwards it will not weigh as much. This demonstrates that energy has mass. In burning the coal you have removed the energy from the matter. The first rule of the conservation of energy is that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, only transformed from one form into another. Matter is just a storage medium of Potential Energy. Therefore whatever initialised the creation of the universe doesn't even need to be material. Just energy.