Pope Says That Technology Cannot Replace God

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[citation][nom]11796pcs[/nom]Pelov ^^ you say I am spewing poorly understood scientific knowledge yet you do nothing to prove me wrong. Right on Wikipedia it says and I quote "The law expresses that energy can be transformed, i.e. changed from one form to another, but cannot be created nor destroyed." Is the creation of energy not one of the things the Big Bang creates?[/citation]

I find it comical that you use scientific reason to disprove scientific reason, yet also use scientific reason to prove your own religious beliefs to be true. You have to understand that the mere fact that you're using science to disprove science only legitimizes science's credibility in the first place. Otherwise, why the hell use it if you think it's wrong? You understand science provides something religion can't, and that's sound proof. An "a-ha" moment that can say "that's why!." The fact that you're not pointing to religious text means that there's stuff in there that even you don't believe and therefore doesn't do well in arguments.

But you're right, at least partially. Thermodynamics states that energy can't be created nor lost. E=MC^2, where energy and matter are essentially one in the same (and furthermore, modern thought states that matter itself isn't actually matter as we know it, but rather waves and resembles energy more so than matter as we generally think of it), and it states many more things as a result of that finding. But the big bang doesn't necessarily have to mean something from nothing, but could potentially be the big break, the big bounce, and even the concept of alternate universes. So the big bang isn't "the answer" you're looking to tear apart. In fact there's many of them, and what that proves is that we simply don't know. Ask a physicist if the big bang ever occurred and what happened before or after the big bang, his best answer would essentially be "we're not sure" followed by his or her belief as to what constitutes the most probable. Ultimately the answer is: I don't know. What the big bang attempts to answer is the expansion and subsequent acceleration of space and the universe. There's many guesses as to why, but media has picked up on the big bang because it was one of the earlier ones that, at least partially, explained some of the quirks that we were seeing. It doesn't explain all of the intricacies, though, and therefore is an incomplete theory and isn't an answer.

I thought you were referring to entropy itself, which is an altogether more confusing subject.
 
This is coming from the head of an institution that doesnt believe in condoms... and causing a whole bloody disaster by helping the spread of HIV.... technology dont replace god, but it'll probly save more lives then you will
 
I don't understand what all of the anti-God rhetoric is all about. God is real and is one of the most powerful forces that Man ever created in his inability to understand creation and existence. What other intangible concept has managed to cause wars, changes of power base, and commands millions to give away their money, freedom, ability to reason and even their lives. God is 100% real and scares the ever living sh*t out of me. I pray to technology for the day that humanity evolves beyond such a prehistoric and dangerous concept.

"Our technology that art in laboratory. Truth seek in thy name. Your kingdom come before God's kingdom sees us all undone. Blown off of the earth in conflict and into the heavens. Give us another day, to use our heads, and forgive us our stupidity as we forgive the stupidity of the religious who angst us. Lead us not into a closed mind, and deliver US from evil."
 
[citation][nom]bv90andy[/nom]man... 5 pages of comments. God seems pretty popular, Lady Gaga must be so jealous.[/citation]


Way to go. Although technology may not be greater than God... you proved that Lady Gaga can kill off a whole discussion about both technology and God.
 
[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]So by that logic realorunreal who created god? I once heard a priest say that "anything as complex as the universe must have a creator". The question posed back to him was "if a system of complexity must have a creator, than is the god you suggest that created the system any more or less complex than the universe itself? and if yes than who created the creator?".[/citation]

If God created the universe, and the universe had a beginning, then God created time where time started, To use a concept to say "so who created God" is a controversial statement because before time was created, there would have been a statement of infiniteness or timelessness.

There is a great article that probably more clearly portrays what I'm trying to say:
http://creation.com/if-god-created-the-universe-then-who-created-god
 
Nobody mentioned this so far. One word comes to mind when there's talk related to religion. Apophenia. Google it if you want. It's your brain's fault 🙂 If you look hard enough, you'll see beyond god, and whoever created it, with the Universe..., until we find the real proof 🙂
 
"come up with your own thoughts....and BTW if there was a infinite number of both beaches and hurricanes eventually all possible formations between the two would have happened.....last time i checked, hurricanes don't paint...people do. Now if you added a infinite numbers of humans into the equation, the amount of paintings sitting on beaches would skyrocket."

Are you a current product of the public school system in America? Perhaps you lack reading comprehension? Carefully re-read the post, then rethink your response.
 
[citation][nom]11796pcs[/nom]People need to realize that not all Christians are Catholics, we don't all think the Pope is awesome. In fact today the Catholic church is messed up because they don't read the Bible. If they read it they would realize that theistic evolution is NOT biblical and that faith does not come out of simply saying lines and memorizing verses but by truely believing Christ cam down to Earth as a man, was sinless and died for our sins. Also everyone here dissing Chrisitianity because it has no proof behind it needs to look at a few things in the universe and think about how old they could be. First think about comets. You know those things that orbit around the sun and have a long "tail" coming off of them. That tail is ice melting off of the back of the comet. So every time a comet goes around Earth it gets smaller right? Now, think logically if the Universe was 4 Billion years old would we have comets? No, they would have melted. Now, scientists have thought of this and BELIEVE a cloud that refreshes the comets exists called the Oort Cloud, problem is it has NEVER BEEN SEEN an there is absolutely no proof it exists. How about spiral galaxies? The reason they spin is because matter from the outside of the galaxy wants to get closer to the big star in the center. Tell me if the universe was 4 billion years old would spiral galaxies exist? I will even go as far as to use a SCIENTIFIC LAW the second law of thermodynamics says that over time things will become disorganized NOT more organized. And is that true in the real world? Yes. Just look at my room. Evolution says the opposite- that we got more organized over time. That's illogical. The first law of thermodynamics also disproves elvolution it says that energy cannot be created or destroyed. The Bing Bang is creating energy out of nothing- and that doesn't work. None of us were there when the universe was created but to think that everything came from nowhere is insane and again illogical. I know some say "but where did God come from then". All I have to say is that there is a reason it's called faith and is my belief that God created everything any less logical than your "everything came from nothing". P.S. Where did the energy and the matter come from for the big bang? The Law of the Conservation of Energy states matter cannot be created or destroyed. It is only logical that an all powerful being able to break the laws of science could have made the universe. P.S.S. God gave us the choice of obeying him or doing what we wanted so anybody who asks "why does God let this happen" needs to realize that our selfishness is what brought about the bad things that happen in this world.[/citation]

This is beyond comment territory. I truly hope you have no social life, you influence no one and that you have or will never ever have children.
 
No wonder Pope doesn't like technology and science. So far it managed to disprove that Jerusalem is the center of the universe with Sun circulating around it.

 
Rather you believe in god or not I guess everyone single one of us when we die will find out for ourselves first hand if there is anything beyond this life or not.
 
[citation][nom]SteelCity1981[/nom]Rather you believe in god or not I guess everyone single one of us when we die will find out for ourselves first hand if there is anything beyond this life or not.[/citation]

That's fine. The problem is however with the believers affecting everybody else's life and progress.
 
Technology is a good hideout for folks who dont belive in things their few of our sences can not feel. It is plain irrational to think there are no higher beeings in this wast 13 billion years old universe we have. Just imagine, our Earth is 4,5 billion old, what a head start it must be if there is a just one civilisation 1 billion years older then ours. They would be practically godlike to us. And imagine if they have their own god there. So we can for them be practically not much more than little ants who think we are very smart in our grandour.
 
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