From being addicted to the internet plushaving read parts of 'the God Delusion' I end up here.
And that is quite ironically, as I favor the god hypothesis more so than not (okay okay, I put it at 50%, but I suspect that's more than average here).
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I am addicted to forums and like civility and world news/problems I ended up being addicted to a Christian news forum and a peak oil forum.
I find most people a lot nicer there and even agree with some of their views I hardly see anywhere else.
Perhaps through visiting the Christian forum for such a long time I felt compelled to support their views to some extend and reject 'the God Delusion'.
Or perhaps it's because I'm a computer programming student and the thought of a universe being created doesn't sound crazy when game programmers create their own little virtual universes all the time.
So my idea was, why not? and began to search any idea that could torpedo Dawkins' ideas.....actually ways to just torpedo Dawkins
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I gathered enough info to comfort myself again.
No proof that god exists of course, but enough logic that enforces my agnostic stance instead of abandoning it due to his 'strong' arguments to do so.
So I went back to the Christian forum and well, you know, there's always a discussion about the age of the universe and it got me thinking when I was browsing again
for pretty pictures of planets and galaxies..
which led me to question the big bang, something about the story of the big bang's age just didn't add up what they were showing me.
Not that I saw the redshift of quasars being far off
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but I was missing a story of... "and here you see that the older galaxies are a lot closer to each other than the current ones"
I mean, go back in time and everything is more dense, so galaxies should be closer to each other right?
But the galaxies I saw... they all look-a-like.
I also didn't see or "and this is as far as we can see, here we see the impenetrable cloudy area".
but we can see 13 billion year old galaxies?
I could just imagine that when the James Webb Space Telescope is launched that scientists will be stunned to see even 'older' galaxies.
Anyway, I googled for an alternative theory and came upon a youtube video about the EU.
Man......
why didn't I think of this before?
Alarm bells should have ringed when seeing stories about supposed black holes in the center of the milky-way in contrast to very bright centers in every single galaxy.
I can't believe that all through the 20th century this was the best we could do when it comes to cosmology
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I like to note though that in the youtube videos I too often saw this reasoning that this was because they still wanted to believe in creation instead of a steady-state universe.
I really really doubt that.
I'm positive that when scientists knew for the first time that almost every galaxy in the universe is redshifting.. most were thinking of another pangea, not proof of god.
I also have a little problem with an infinitely old universe.
Oh well..
That's my story.
I wanted to get that off my chest.