Was reading some forums earlier tonight in the myspace website (Oh, I have a myspace website now courtesy of Maria; Lynna's new housemate). Went to the Religions & Philosophy section. I have a tendency to go to that type of sections as I used to be obsessed about religion at one point in my life. Just wanted to see what people were debating about, but it's just the usual same ol'-same ol'. Thought that maybe there might be some interesting new thing to learn about, but no. Just a bunch of people talking nonsense or rather, not knowing what they're talking about. I'll give you an example of one the threads that peaked my interest. It was written by an american 16 year old:

"If God has existed for all eternity, then it must have been an eternity before he created the earth, meaning that before the earth was created, he existed for an infinite amount of time. It is impossible that the infinite amount of time could have passed (since it, of course, is infinite) and therefor, he could never have created the earth.

And where did God come from anyway? How did he get the ability to create things? What if I were to suggest that God himself was created by an UBERGod that transcends even our own God?" - Mattan

It's sad, but it's statements like this that keeps reminding me how badly christians understand god; although this mattan guy is probably an atheist. Then again, most atheist, free thinkers, agnostics, etc.. are very heavily influenced by the christian concept of god. Which is why I feel that they're all very the terplesung as well. And then I was reading all the rebuttle to this statement type question and very few, maybe 2 or 3 (out of 72) came even very close to giving the right answer. For some reason it never occured to anyone of them that God created time. But that's so typical of the christian world. They think that God is subject to same laws as men. Why? Why in the universe would God be subject to the laws that He created? After all, did He create the laws for himself? Or did he create it for us? As in, everything that exists within the universe, not just us humans. If He created the laws of the universe for us, then why should He be subject to the same laws? It's not for Him. And as God is self-sufficient, it would mean that He does not need to subjugate Himself to the laws that He created (and I would insert a "NO MATTER WHAT" here because He IS self-sufficient in the total sense of the word; Independent), but as creatures of this universe, we do. We couldn't exist without such laws. It is the nature of the universe and we are dependent on it to even exist. But God, God is outside of this nature and it is not necessary for Him to be dependent on these laws for him to exist. He can (and does) exist without it because if not, then He wouldn't be self-sufficient. He wouldn't be God.

*sigh* Most christians don't even understand the concept. I find that they always, always underestimate God. Always bringing Him down to a more "human" level, and therefore, not understanding and recognising His greatness. And then, this guy mattan didn't even do his homework about time. There were some replies saying that time is relative, but none of them truly understood what that meant. What it means is that time moves at different speeds. It is not constant as most people seem to think. And it's not about perception of time either. There is physical evidence to indicate that time moves at different speeds depending on the conditions. For example, there was a test done (I dunno by whom) using two very accurate and precise clocks. They might've been atomic clocks but I'm not sure. They were set at the same time and then one was placed at the bottom of a skyscraper and the other at the top. After a while, when they placed the two clocks side by side, they discovered that the clock at the top of the skyscraper was slower (or behind time) than the clock at bottom of the building. And then from Einstein's "Theory of Relativity", which is based off Newton's laws, we learn that time moves faster nearer dense objects compared to empty space as well as time slows down the faster an object is in motion. It is theorised that at light speed, time is at a stand still. Time is also affected by gravity. The more powerful the gravity, the faster time moves. Gravity is determined by density. Which leads us to quantum mehanics, math and physics. Which is quite complicated, even I don't know how they go about it. But one of the books I read on this subject was talking about how they discovered that time gets shorter or speeds up the more dense and compact the surrounding. So in other words, if you were to compact the whole of earth and crush it down to the size of a football, one second of time normal earth would be maybe one whole day for football size earth. That wasn't an actual calculation by the way. It was just to illustrate a point about the diffenrence in the passing of time on the two different earths. (NOTE: The density of the two earths are the same. It's just the space occupied is different). Now, evidence indicates that the universe is expanding. Scientist believe this because the further most stars that can be seen is red in colour. If you understand about light waves then you can understand why scientist believe that this is evidence that the universe is expanding. Because of this expansion, there must be a center and that's how we get our "Big Bang Theory". So now imagine the whole universe. This big expanse. This enormous volume of space, solids, liquids and gas being compressed into the size of a quark (smaller than an atom; the smallest thing discovered by man yet). It is way smaller than a pin head. Imagine, there is no change in density. Just space. Imagine how different the flow of time might be. It could be, one second our time could've been one billion years "their" time. It could also mean the beginning of time. Newton's third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. So, in theory, everything cancels each other out (This is very Qur'anic by the way). That means the total energy in the universe is zero. Which is very stable. So if the total energy of the universe came from the big bang. Then the big bang should not have happened. Being stable, there should not have been a bang in the first place. But evidence, to date, shows that the "Big Bang Theory" to be the strongest contender for the creation of the universe. Including the creation of time. So... what caused the Big Bang?

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