A God That Makes Sense?

"The wage sin pays is death." - Romans 6:23

@Leadfoot,
Got any evidence that such a thing exists outside your mind? If not, why should a rational person believe that it does?

"The wage sin pays is death." - Romans 6:23

But the hours are good and the perks are fantastic.

I think that was the point.

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@Leadfoot,
Got any evidence that such a thing exists outside your mind? If not, why should a rational person believe that it does?

Way more than Stephen Hawking has for believing that "The universe is capable of creating itself from nothing". But then again, it's possible that I and Hawking are both irrational...

Spontaneous creation of the universe from nothing

Dongshan He, Dongfeng Gao, Qing-yu Cai
(Submitted on 4 Apr 2014)
An interesting idea is that the universe could be spontaneously created from nothing, but no rigorous proof has been given. In this paper, we present such a proof based on the analytic solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE). Explicit solutions of the WDWE for the special operator ordering factor p=-2 (or 4) show that, once a small true vacuum bubble is created by quantum fluctuations of the metastable false vacuum, it can expand exponentially no matter whether the bubble is closed, flat or open. The exponential expansion will end when the bubble becomes large and thus the early universe appears. With the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectory theory, we show explicitly that it is the quantum potential that plays the role of the cosmological constant and provides the power for the exponential expansion of the true vacuum bubble. So it is clear that the birth of the early universe completely depends on the quantum nature of the theory.

Show us that evidence you claim to have, please.

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Spontaneous creation of the universe from nothing

Dongshan He, Dongfeng Gao, Qing-yu Cai
(Submitted on 4 Apr 2014)
An interesting idea is that the universe could be spontaneously created from nothing, but no rigorous proof has been given. In this paper, we present such a proof based on the analytic solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE). Explicit solutions of the WDWE for the special operator ordering factor p=-2 (or 4) show that, once a small true vacuum bubble is created by quantum fluctuations of the metastable false vacuum, it can expand exponentially no matter whether the bubble is closed, flat or open. The exponential expansion will end when the bubble becomes large and thus the early universe appears. With the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectory theory, we show explicitly that it is the quantum potential that plays the role of the cosmological constant and provides the power for the exponential expansion of the true vacuum bubble. So it is clear that the birth of the early universe completely depends on the quantum nature of the theory.

It's Quahog all over again.

There's a preponderance of toytown messiahs on A2K these days. Most of them don't understand the science yet think they've got some sort of particular insight that allows them to see something that's evaded everyone else for millennia.

Where did all those terms come from Set and Izzy? Holly roller... Bible Thumper... Gosh.. There's a ton more. I can't even remember them all! I heard every single one within 24 hrs of getting saved, and had no clue what any of it meant. And get this... It was a BAPTIST calling me all those things!

Bwaaaahahaha!

Can ya throw out a few more of em? I am really interested in tracing them back. Google is my friend after all.