Ask a physicist anything. (5)

[Steffenfield]

The Earth would have to become more dense, or more massive, neither of which are particularly likely.

Thanks.

And yeah, I thought that video was probably full of crap. *lol*

 

[Gracchus]

Ooh. I just remembered something.

I saw a video like 25 years ago about the tribulation years.

One part of it claimed that our bodies would be so heavy during this time that we could barely even move.

Is there any possible chance that the gravitational pull on Earth could ever become greater than what it already is?

Not unless the earth increased in mass. One way to do that is to force one of the planets to collide with earth but this will annihilate all life on earth and possibly create a second moon!

Another way to feel so heavy as to fail to stand up is to stay awake for two nights and climb (by running) 200 flights of stairs. Then sit down for one hour and I guarantee you (if you are still breathing) that you will not even be able to lift a finger. You will feel as if you were made of lead.

The Earth would have to become more dense, or more massive, neither of which are particularly likely.

Actually, if present trends continue, almost everyone will weigh over 500 lbs.

Gods word can make a murderer love instead of hate. Gods power is real. A monkey showing some intelligence doesn't surprise me. But God does, he is real.

Christians positing a God who showed some intelligence would surprise me!

 

[Assyrian]

God must have been pretty intelligent to come up with evolution

 

[godisreal36]

You are correct, just because we beleive in God doesnt show his inteligence. Yet a murderer still loves and a monkey is still only a monkey. All people are wrong sometimes, yet God is not.

 

[godisreal36]

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[Steffenfield]

People.

Please.

Focus.

This thread is ask a physicist anything. You're going to get it locked again debating whatever theology you believe in.

Please take that elsewhere.

Thank you.

 

[godisreal36]

Albert Einstein, the icon of physics believed in God, is this true?

 

[Steffenfield]

And I'm not smarter than a 5th grader. *lol*

Can we please take any debates elsewhere though?

Thank you.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Gods word can make a murderer love instead of hate.

Then why doesn't he?

Gods power is real. A monkey showing some intelligence doesn't surprise me. But God does, he is real.

Can you demonstrate this?

You are correct, just because we beleive in God doesnt show his inteligence. Yet a murderer still loves and a monkey is still only a monkey. All people are wrong sometimes, yet God is not.

People are indeed wrong. But the facts remain: the theory of common descent ('evolution') is correct.

I am happy to discuss the reasons why this is so.

I think beleiving in monkeys evolving into more than they are is wrong. They've had a long time now to show it and have not, a monkey in the jungle remains only a monkey.

If a monkey became anything other than a monkey, that would disprove evolution. If that confuses you, then this rather soundly proves you don't actually understand evolution - though I am happy to explain how it works.

A human in the jungle shows that there is inteligence within that human. After all we don't live in the jungle anymore. Why focus on a monkey when Gods mysteries are to be solved?

Because it is not clear that either God or his mysteries actually exist. Moreover, studying evolution provides tangible results - unlike studying theology.

How does the bible make a murderer love when the world cannot?

Can you demonstrate that this actually happens?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

And I'm not smarter than a 5th grader. *lol*

Can we please take any debates elsewhere though?

Thank you.

With all due respect, I'm happy to keep such discussions here. After all, this thread is about asking a physicist anything.

 

[godisreal36]

Did Einstein believe in God? He was the founder of physics i think and a genius

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Did Einstein believe in God?

No. He explicitly stated in an interview that he did not.

He was the founder of physics i think and a genius

Indeed. And even if he did believe in a deity... so what? That doesn't prove God exists.

 

[godisreal36]

A fifth grader could answer this simple question

 

[godisreal36]

Could you provide a quote by Einstein? The only thing it proves is that a physicist is not smarter than a fifth grader either.

 

[godisreal36]

I have heard that Einstein did believe in God, however after reading his own words i must say that Einstein did believe in a God that controlled the laws of physics, just not a personal God that cares for us individually. But then again he didn't take time to know God either, physics was his God. I was wrong, Ive heard that he believed and assumed it meant Jesus, yet this is no so. Its interesting though that he did not dismiss god altogether, after all, there are many questions he could not answer. I wonder how smart he would be if he took time to know God as much as physics. Anyways, my daily humility is full. Saying someone is dumb, not smarter than a fifth grader is not logical, especially if that person is smarter than a fifth grader.. But then again neither is challenging a physicist if you're not one.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Here's a quote provided by wikiquote with reference:

* I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist.
o Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (2 July 1945), responding to a rumor that a Jesuit priest had caused Einstein to convert to Christianity, quoted in an article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, (1997)

Another:

* I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.
o Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1997)

Perhaps the most straightforward:

* It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.
o Letter to an atheist (1954) as quoted in Albert Einstein: The Human Side (1981) edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman ISBN 0691023689

 

[godisreal36]

i could easily demonstrate how a murderer is changed by God word, there are many who been changed by it. Can you demonstrate how a black hole works or time space just as easily? Like i said, I'm done i only wanted to answer that question. My apologies, seriously. I love my God as much as you love physics and i get carried away sometimes. Forgive me for intruding.

 

[godisreal36]

attitude of humility, me and Einstein agree on one thing i guess. i wonder if he continued to believe as he did till the day he died.

 

[godisreal36]

You put down many words, i would like to answer it all as much as i can.

I was not saying that a monkey in remaining only a monkey disproves evolution. Only that people continue to look at monkeys as if they will evolve in some way, trying to teach them to be more human like after man has already evolved, not physically but intellectually. And i was submitting Gods love that others learn as proof that his word is worth something and yet monkeys is all that science is interested in and not the human who ceases to hate and murder by Gods word.

I myself am my own witness to Gods power to make people love., once i would have said many hateful words. But not now. I guess my thinking that i alone am right is wrong also, Gods word tells me this, and i don't use hateful words as i once did because i fear God and need him, not because I'm better than another person, God makes it clear that i am not. How can i think about love instead of hate if God doesn't exist? What makes me say I'm wrong when i want to be right? Gods power does this, not me. I am not good just like the bible says, yet now i try to love. This is not easy and i could not do this on my own, trust me. If god were not real and his word were not true, i would have given up by now. I would have hated and made fun of your ideas with much hate, Ive done this before as we all have, yet this man learns to love where a monkey could not. Without God i am just a hateful man.

 

[AV1611VET]

What causes sonoluminescence?