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Life forms in a universe running backward would start of dead come to life an get younger everyday .
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
What does it matter if I believe in the big bang or not?
Last I checked humanity has believed in all sorts of things that turned out to be wrong.
originally posted by: circlemaker
Well if you think of the Big Bang as a 0 point / singularity, then it explodes in the positive and negative direction. There would be a timeline exactly like ours going the opposite direction from the 0 point just like positive and negative numbers, but perhaps with a subtle difference like left and right being swapped.
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
I know what science is based upon thank you very much.
As for denying ignorance, well........
Perhaps you should take your own advice?
And this has exactly what to do with the fact that the "theory" mentioned in the OP is unfalsiable/untestable?
I am not the one refuting the BIG BANG which is based on science, experiments, and math.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
Not testable by observation.
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Nice strawman.
May I have another?
Though I'll point out, what we call "splitting the atom" may not be any "splitting" at all and in no way "proves" the existence of atoms.
Like Nietzsche wisely pointed out:
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it. -Buddha
Sure thing heres one video that talks about superposition
Due to my own life observations and analysis I find that the singularity agrees with reason, known as superposition.
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Um.
Not a strawman.
Seems like you've segued into proselytization.
Sure thing heres one video that talks about superposition
Have you seen the source movie?
You'll not see a bigger pile of New Age psuedo-scientific mumbo jumbo.
Due to my own life observations and analysis I find that the singularity agrees with reason, known as superposition.
Doesn't mean much considering we are hardwired for confirmation bias.....
I am refering to Schema Theory.
But, even then, why exactly should I trust your assessment?
I don't mean to be rude.
But you took my skepticism as refutation.
Despite the fact I said nothing close to refutation.
Doesn't make me put much stock in your critical thinking skills.
Its not about me and my thinking skills,
I recomend you start your journey of observation towards perfection with the man in the mirror,
and end there too.
Leave me out of it.
Also if you dont want to be rude then dont be.
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Its not about me and my thinking skills,
Considering you're asserting it as fact.
It has everything to do with you and your thinking skills.
I recomend you start your journey of observation towards perfection with the man in the mirror,
Funny thing about "perfection", it's subjective.
I am not convinced perfection is real or attainable.
and end there too.
Oh, so I get to decide when I "get there"?
What if it takes me in a opposite direction than you?
Leave me out of it.
Well, you asserted yourself "into it".
I merely said it was interesting and unfalsiable/untestable.
Neither of which is untrue by your own admission.
You want out now that I no longer amuse I take it?
Also if you dont want to be rude then dont be.
Actually, I could care less if I am being percieved as rude or not.
Honesty is often misunderstood as such so I find no reason to worry about it.
Then there are the benefits of taking offense as a defense mechanism.
The phrase is commonly used as an attempt to say that one is not saying something maliciously, and thus my usage of it.
But to back step a bit.
Am I to take it you accept the scientific community's viewpoint as fact on the subject of the Big Bang?
To the point that expressed skepticism is viewed as refutation none the less.
Yet you don't accept it's viewpoint as fact on the subject of the movie "What The Bleep Do We Know?"?
Rather curious if you ask me.
Also, you misspelled infinite in your signature.
So believe what is real to you, or disbelieve what you think is false, still doesnt make it so.
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
So believe what is real to you, or disbelieve what you think is false, still doesnt make it so.
Exactly.
See what I did there?
originally posted by: HarbingerOfShadows
a reply to: FormOfTheLord
Ah.
So you and your thinking skills don't matter.
Yet your opinion stated as fact of mine does.
Imagine that.
“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”
― Karl Popper