@Setanta,
Quote:You've got a beef, specifically with Wikipedia, on the origin of matter--and yet you seem to think your imaginary friend poofed it all into existence on a whim. You provide not a shred of evidence, yet you scorn the work of scientists who are far better educated than you, and spend their lives researching physics and chemistry. That's pathetic.
I don't have a beef with wiki. Their information is accurate.
Comment on my interpretation of the content of the wiki article especially the parts I bold faced. I am not scorning, explain how time running backwards and pure speculation without data or a pattern is good science.
I like to keep speculation to something you can imagine actually happening. I am seeing new ideas enter the universe as you and I type. That is a pattern that I think we can speculate holds true to the beginning of the universe.
You and I can poof an original idea into existence, manipulate the atoms in our brain with that idea, and then type it into this blog. All ideas are poofed by intelligence and then matter has to be manipulated to form patterns (words) intelligent beings can share the ideas. Matter is not intelligence, matter reveals the ideas in a material so intelligent beings can exchange ideas. That is the pattern. I know it is true otherwise you and I couldn't poof new ideas into the universe and share them.
I think we can speculate that in the beginning of the universe God thought of or poofed an idea (just like you and I are now, only on a grander scale) and the living word (Jesus) turned the ideas into physical patterns in matter (words) we call atoms, planets, stars and biology.
It's all about the creation, storage and manipulation of information in patterns. Sounds a lot like an algorithm, running an operating system in hardware doesn't it?