tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post2523467421129110456..comments2024-03-04T15:09:00.479-08:00Comments on The Scientific Worldview: Infinity and the god of the gapsGlenn Borchardthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-44393546550274987562016-01-23T10:45:32.265-08:002016-01-23T10:45:32.265-08:00Dear Anon:
You are correct. That was the loaded qu...Dear Anon:<br />You are correct. That was the loaded question I wanted to ask Hawking at his UC Berkeley talk on 20070313. Unfortunately, he was not taking questions from the audience. The Big Bang Theory is a clear violation of the Fifth Assumption of Science, conservation (Matter and the motion of matter can be neither created nor destroyed), which is otherwise known as the First Law of Thermodynamics. There will be no “heat death” of the universe, as that would be a violation of the Sixth Assumption of Science, complementarity (All things are subject to divergence and convergence from other things). "Heat death" is a misinterpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. See my paper on “Resolution of the SLT-order paradox.”Glenn Borchardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-5543504200068772122016-01-23T07:08:46.077-08:002016-01-23T07:08:46.077-08:00Doesn't the big bang theory contradict the law...Doesn't the big bang theory contradict the law of conservation of energy? We got all our energy from nothing, a singularity, which existed outside time and space. Some also predict heat death of the universe, which would also contradict the law as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-72353681355612095552016-01-11T06:43:26.265-08:002016-01-11T06:43:26.265-08:00I don’t know if you regard it as apologetics, but ...I don’t know if you regard it as apologetics, but it seems clear that the Big Bang Theory is now part of Catholic dogma (http://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2009/07/what-is-meaning-of-curiosity-in.html). Philosophically, it fits right in with the cosmogony promulgated in Genesis.<br />As I have explained many times, science does not use the terms “good” and “bad.” Those are subjective terms defined by each of us for our own ends (e.g., to the rabbit, the fox is bad; to the fox, the rabbit is good). The causes of “good” and “bad” behavior are infinitely complicated, but none of them are grounds for the “Myth of Exceptionalism” (http://thescientificworldview.blogspot.com/2015/02/critique-of-tsw-part-27a-myth-of.html). It is true that atheism and theism are opposing belief systems. Because the universe is infinite, neither can be proven to be completely true, although theism is falsified every time a prayer remains unanswered. Your statement that there is “no objective justification for naturalistic claims” is clearly false. Without those claims, science would be impossible. <br />Glenn Borchardthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394474754821945146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-6365886080211951752016-01-10T11:51:08.605-08:002016-01-10T11:51:08.605-08:00GB writes: "... the premier gap argument invo...GB writes: <i>"... the premier gap argument involves relativity and Big Bang Theory."</i> <br /> <br />I don't see that in theological apologetics, maybe because the BBT is a mystical proposition.<br /> <br />What I do see is a claimed "gap" of knowledge about human action: what is the "ultimate cause" of people being good or bad? That's blended with the assertion that atheism is as much a "belief system" as theism, with no objective justification for naturalistic claims. To some degree, for "progressive physics", that's actually true.Westmillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02865166433794584552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-14462798597847910762015-12-27T23:35:19.852-08:002015-12-27T23:35:19.852-08:00Beautifully written! The battle between Materialis...Beautifully written! The battle between Materialists and Idealists, Determinists and Indeterminists, et cetera, will be waged for eternity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2202092988208583550.post-73410745816247143752015-12-23T20:07:23.555-08:002015-12-23T20:07:23.555-08:00Friend me on facebook, Kenny Damaschke is my name ...Friend me on facebook, Kenny Damaschke is my name and I love your brain!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com