They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.
But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.
Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.
Also, it's very rare to encounter anyone who doesn't believe at least one other thing as ridiculous as what the street preacher is selling. So even if "very few people" would...
36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[g]; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger...
I never cease to be amazed at the fact that the vast majority of churches are filled with middle aged and elderly people who, despite having become Christians more than 20 years...
If you were to encounter the street preacher at age 4, and enough times, you might be more receptive. I trust that answers the question you raise. It's not so much that "people" are...
The best cure for misattributed quotations is critical thinking, combined with a decent search game, and a working relationship with an AI LLM. See for example this chat where I ask Gemini
If you were to encounter a street preacher standing on a corner saying things similar to what Paul supposedly said, very few people would believe what they heard. So, that raises the question of...
To add to my post, just as love in religious texts is usually reserved for the in-group, so is the anger at, even hatred of, the "sinner", concern for repentance and moral correction. The...
Preachers love to quote the occasional feel-good texts that we find in his letters, e.g. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not...
I can excuse newer Christians for their biblical ignorance, since I too used to be an ignorant Christian. But that was back in my 20's. I never cease to be amazed at the fact that the vast...
I think of galaxies as more of a collection of celestial objects. Perhaps at some point in the distant future, all those bodies making up a galaxy may be absorbed into super-massive black holes.
It's denominations all the way down. Even official denominations (think Anglican, Catholic etc) have strong factions, and factions within factions. The evangelicals that support Trump hate...
I fed ChatGPT some ideas and asked it to word it all for me. I took a joke I have posted here a few times before, but I find it very revealing. It never personally made me laugh at all, in fact. It...