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The Earth would have to become more dense, or more massive, neither of which are particularly likely.
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.
Christians positing a God who showed some intelligence would surprise me!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.
Then why doesn't he?Gods word can make a murderer love instead of hate.
Can you demonstrate this?Gods power is real. A monkey showing some intelligence doesn't surprise me. But God does, he is real.
People are indeed wrong. But the facts remain: the theory of common descent ('evolution') is correct.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.
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.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.
Because it is not clear that either God or his mysteries actually exist. Moreover, studying evolution provides tangible results - unlike studying theology.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?
Can you demonstrate that this actually happens?How does the bible make a murderer love when the world cannot?
With all due respect, I'm happy to keep such discussions here. After all, this thread is about asking a physicist anything.And I'm not smarter than a 5th grader. *lol*
Can we please take any debates elsewhere though?
Thank you.
No. He explicitly stated in an interview that he did not.Did Einstein believe in God?
Indeed. And even if he did believe in a deity... so what? That doesn't prove God exists.He was the founder of physics i think and a genius
* 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)
Perhaps the most straightforward:* 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)
* 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
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