2007-08-10 10:54:40 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
There are very compelling "proofs" that god exists I think by St Thomas Aquinas. One of them goes to this effect:
Question: Take the most complicated of complicated clocks. With it's myriad if gears and springs and jewels. Could this clock ever just randomly come into existence, through the history of time. Could you go to some planet in some mountain light years away and find the clock which was made by the tides and heat and rocks until the clock was formed, and told time accurately as do all clocks.
Answer: The answer is no. It took a skilled craftsman to build that clock and it could never just have been accidentally made as a rock is made.
Now take something infinitely more complex and profound than that clock. MAN. If the little clock couldn't have been randomly created, then how can something infinitely more complex such as man be randomly created.
Man, by the same token must have been created by some intelligence (God) just as the clock must have been created by intelligence (Man).
QED
Weather you believe in god or not it is a compelling argument.
2007-08-10 11:38:04 · answer #1 · answered by BRUZER 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
In the context of a forum about engineering questions and answers one thing can be said for certain: Your question is not related to the practice and profession of engineering.
Belief in God is related to faith rather than science and applied science (engineering).
For something to be science it has to be repeatable and verifiable. God is neither so God is not accessible to science or applied science. For this reason science and engineering have nothing to say about the existence of God.
Belief in God or not is not a prerequisite for either science or engineering.
By the way the same could be said for the definition of Good and Evil. That is science has nothing to say about these. This in no way implies what scientists and engineers believe about these things. This does in part explain why opinions of scientists and engineers on these topics will have no general agreement.
2007-08-11 02:52:31 · answer #2 · answered by Dan Peirce 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Q: What are the two main pillars of science?
A: (say it with me everybody) Cause... and...Effect.
Every scientist knows that even if a universe could somehow come into existence out of nothing, it wouldn't do it for no reason.
The only thing that seems to be missing from the Big Bang theory is the reason.
Let's see now, what could it be?
2007-08-10 18:16:10 · answer #3 · answered by farwallronny 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes the unified theory of everything (explaining the 4 fundamental forces of nature), that is the 'holy grail' of physics, is called a 'God theory'. No, they don't have a good one, yet.
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2007-08-10 18:21:04 · answer #4 · answered by tlbs101 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You mean a mathematical model describing God? Interesting. I think you should work on developing one. Then it can finally be tested scientificly.
2007-08-10 18:00:15 · answer #5 · answered by LG 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yhe sahpes of the word make you think of what god is ,, beciuse that is how you are sure othe rpeople think of an d about the same god as you do
2007-08-10 18:51:33 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. God does not exist. It's as simple as that.
2007-08-10 17:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by jbyall2003 3 · 1⤊ 6⤋