Originally posted by Agent Elrond
I live in NY and I know him. He's good, esp with the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. Strange how OT this thread has gotten, but who care?
I know him too(Im in NY), and the Blue Collar Comedy Tour was marginally funny the first time around...then it was not funny...then it was just lame....and now I hate redneck humor. 😐
Originally posted by julibug
Some of it was funny. It's not the type of stuff I normally watch, though. Ummm - to get back on topic - do you think a sense of humor is something that only developed in humans, or have you noticed it in animals as well? (Great segue, huh?) 😂
I know a horse who I could swear has a sense of humor. I saw her buck some bratty little girl off once and it really looked like if she were a human, she would have been laughing. 😂
Quick question to TO, or anyone else who knows the answer.
When I try to explain why I am Athiest to my friends (It comes up every once and a while) They allways ask how did matter get there, then I try to explain the colliding energy thign wiht matter and anti-matter. But then they ask where did the energy come from? And I don't know what to say......sooo......what do I say?
Tpt> First of all - being an aetheist doesn't require you to explain how matter "came" here. Your decision not to believe in the supernaturl doesn't require you to become a science-expert.
What do your friends use as an explanation? God? Who created God? If God's eternal, then why did he wait forever until he created the Universe?
Forever-13,7 billion years=forever!
But anyways… Big Bang: There are a couple of things you need to understand first, which might sound pretty hairy (I know I thought so when I first heard about it).
TIME: Time and space both began some 13,7 billion years ago. Essentially it has NO meaning to speak of BEFORE BB, because time didn’t exist. This makes discussing events before BB pretty difficult, but let’s try anyways.
MATTER: 1-1=0. To create an equal amount of matter (1) and anti-matter(-1) you need noth-ing (0). That’s of course not entirely true, but quantum-mechanics allows for it.
Ok?
Now “before” BB the theorists tell us that there was this primordial “quantum-soup”. The Heisenberg Uncertainty principles allows for matter to break energy-conservations laws, as long as it only happens within a short period of time for example.
But hey, there WAS no time before the BB, so NOW what? Also: If you wait long enough the improbable will happen. If you wait forever, the impossible will happen (this is statistics).
Now, couple this together: Heisenberg Uncertainty principle, no time, and if you wait forever the impossible will happen. Again, there was NO time prior to the BB, so – KAPOW (to use old Batman sounds), one quantity of Universe sprang into existence.
AE> Actually... Scientists doing science don't give a damn about God. It's not my job as a scientist to show anyone that God doesn't exist. I've yet to see proof that he/she/it does. Life, the Universe and everything works fine without the unnecessary assumption that deities exist. It's Ochams Razor! 😉