7/12/2004: Background microwave energy picture of the universe

[OnyxCougar]

I was cool with it until they had to start putting their idea about origins in there. Completely guesswork, presented as fact. Even if you believe in the Theory, which is fine, just pay attention and note how many people and articles, tv shows and videos present it like fact. Just pay attention. It's amazing, really.

Cool pic, UT.

[tw]

Originally Posted by OnyxCougar

I was cool with it until they had to start putting their idea about origins in there. Completely guesswork, presented as fact. Even if you believe in the Theory, which is fine, just pay attention and note how many people and articles, tv shows and videos present it like fact. Just pay attention. It's amazing, really.

Cool pic, UT.

Literally every fact that exists in our world is based upon the same principle. There really is no perfectly true fact. There are facts because both existing theories and experiments demonstrate them to be facts.

Newton's laws are facts. Then we apply the rules of quantum physics and all hell breaks loose. And yet these are still facts. They do explain how things work. They are proven by underlying and related theories as well as by experimental evidence. And they are tempered by the perspective on which they apply.

As we move forward, we discover more of god's laws. Religion fears we do this because religions assumes all gods laws were already known. How myopic and self serving. Those who are really religious do this cosmic work. Currently trying to explain where the rest of that matter has gone, why the universe is accelerating its expansion, and why the universe is so hodge-podge instead of monolithic. More questions asked because of current facts. In a world dominated by fact rather than by religious and myth, then each new fact results in increasing new questions. Religious extremists especially fear this concept. That means there may be no land where martyrs go to be seduced by 20 virgins.

It is a shame that some will only read a good parable and call that fact. Parables that don't have underlying theories and supporting experimental evidence are no more fact that Capt Jame Kirk and the USS Enterprise. We call it either fiction, urban myth, or religion. At least this concept of how the universe was created is done to comprehend reality - to learn god's laws.

[Beestie]

Originally Posted by tw

As we move forward, we discover more of god's laws. Religion fears we do this because religions assumes all gods laws were already known.

Religion fears what it can't explain or what explains it.

If one's religion is shaken by facts then one really didn't have religion, just bad facts.