Wake up and smell the coffee occasionally!Originally Posted by goats
When you read articles or scientific papers that include phrases like "that could mean...." or "scientists think that..." then have the wherewithall to realise that they are uncertain and don't really know. You don't actually need to get all gooey eyed and jump to the desired end of 'there you go, I can park the Bible back into my grandads archive box'.
“The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the Bible as a whole, in that the universe appears to have order and purpose.” -
Arno Penzias, American physicist and Nobel Laureate for the discovery of the cosmic background radiation which substantiated Big Bang theory.
“In the last few years astronomy has come together so that we’re now able to tell a coherent story
[of how the universe began] …this story does not contradict God, but instead enlarges [the idea of] God.”
Joel Primack, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studies dark matter, particle astrophysics, cosmology and quantum field theory.
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