why does evolution get all of the attention, what about everything else?

Question

seriously. i was just thinking about this after i posted my last question.

what about all of the other matter in the universe? where in the hell did that all come from? are there any scientific theories on that? the big bang doesn't say that matter was created...crazy. my mind is on fire.

do religious people think that god created all of this matter just for fun?

why does life get all of the attention?

boooo to you mushy001. what have you contributed to science?

science doesn't come about without philosophy. one must ask questions to answer them.

saying the matter came from energy is a cop out. any scientist knows matter and energy are equivalent.

i'll pose another question...where did the energy come from?

i don't know string theory. maybe i should read about it. my knowlegde of physics and astronomy stops at general relativity and quantum mechanics...

Answer 1

The evolution of biological life gets a great deal of attention because we are part of it and we are obsessed with our place in it.

Evolution is more than an observed, replicated, verified, established empirical and scientific fact; the theory of evolution is the most powerful general explanatory model in all of science. Without it, every life science collapses and all biological knowledge is false; including medical science which, if evolution were false, would be no more than voodoo and the mystical mumbo-jumbo practiced by Witch Doctors.

Our universe, by definition, originated with the Big Bang, whose light we can still see and whose sound we can still hear. It is true that the physics of the known universe do not apply before that event. There are several hypotheses, but no explanatory theory that explains the properties of matter before the Big Bang.

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The problem with string theory is that no one has figured out a way to test it (and there are a number who claim that it cannot be tested).

Other than those who are actively involved in that branch of physics, I am not sure that anyone really knows where it stands in the great scheme of things.

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Mark R --

First of all, it is ‘Hawking’; and second, here is the transcript from an interview in which Hawking gives the only answer a scientist can to the question:

Question: “Is there, do you think, a place for God in this universe -- and if there is, what does he do?”

Answer: “The French scientist, La Place, explained to Napoleon how the laws of science would determine the evolution of the universe. But where does God fit into this picture, ask Napoleon. I have not needed that hypothesis, was the reply.”


http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/07/04/talkasia.hawking.script/index.html?iref=newssearch

Answer 2

String theory hypothosises about how big bangs can happen and where all the energy (matter is just energy in solid form) comes from.

However it is not a true scientific theory yet, and you need 11 dimensional math to even start working with it.

Currently it is too esoteric and incomprohensible for the creationists to even start arguing against it.


Give it a few years for some experiments to give some weight to the theory and for someone to be able to explain it in ways that the creationists can (mis)understand. Then they will probably start denying it.

Then come up with a subset of creation science for how God Did It.

Then rename it into Intelligent String to try and say Someone* Did It.

* Who was God but we can not say that directly.




Meanwhile we remain 1 planet around 1 star in about 250,000,000,000 stars in our galaxy. Which is one galaxy in about 125,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe.

I guess god got a little overexcited on the fourth day.

Answer 3

Evolution gets a lot of attention from religion because living things so closely resemble machines that we know are made by us (intelligent designers). Religions also believe that humans, in their current form, are the ultimate goal of the universe. Evolution is evidence against this and states that the universe is still changing. There are other sciences that discredit certain beliefs. (Geology,astronomy etc. disprove the "6000-year-old-universe" claim), but evolution involves objects of greater complexity that have taken a lot longer to explain.

Galileo got a lot of "attention" in his day from the inquisition for his ideas on physics and astronomy that are now recognized as fact.

Answer 4

Evolution is perceived by many religious persons as the last stand, and for good reason. One by one, science has explained in purely physical terms all the phenomena that were once attributed to an almighty being. Life was the last and most difficult, and then along came Darwin. Now there is nowhere to retreat for those who need the reassurance of some evidence for their deity. Of course many believers find that they are able to survive on faith alone, but not all are that secure, apparently.

Answer 5

Read any first grade science book. It will claim that all of the matter in the universe was contained in a space no bigger than the dot on this page. Then that blew up and here we are. How can we logically believe that? God created the universe because He can. It is to show us how powerful and immense He is!. He made the earth special for us to live. Where did the energy come from? Why aren't the planets and moons spinning out of control? Everything points to a designer. There is order in our universe. Has anyone ever witnesses an explosion create order? Just some food for thought to help quench that fire in your mind.

Answer 6

The theory i know for matter says it came from the the huge amount of energy in the big bang. As mass is just another form of energy (e=mc2) the energy turned into mass

Answer 7

Even Steven Hocking says that there is no explaining the "God Factor". There is no scientific explanation for where all the matter/energy came from. Therefore even an evolutionist would have to admit that God had to create something for things to be evolved from.

Mark

Answer 8

1.) Because life has the unique ability to contemplate its own existence.

2.) Who says the matter of the universe had to "come from" ANYwhere? If a god or gods can somehow "just always exist", why couldn't the universe itself?

3.) There are plenty of physicists, astronomers, and other scientists who are WORKING -- not just praying or making it up -- to figure out the answer to questions such as yours.

Answer 9

The main problem that creationists have is that they are working from a flawed document that we call The Bible. Its major flaw in this case is that what we now know as The Bible is the result of a long string of both accidental and deliberate mistranslations of the original documents. The main example goes back to the Book of Genesis and the use of the word "day", as in "And on the seventh day, He rested." The original word comes nowhere near meaning day, as in a period of 24 hours. It would have been more correctly translated as "cycle", "epoch" or "era". To me, those words make The Bible and the natural world a much closer fit.

Answer 10

Chill out, science as we know it has only been around for about 300 years. Give it a chance, okay? It has already done about a gazillion times more to explain the world to us than religion has in thousands of years. You don't need to know everything right now.

Sorry...boo to me? So because I am trying to explain to you that it's unreasonable to expect science to have already discovered EVERYTHING possible, I should be booed?

And why do religious people expect atheists all to have doctoral degrees in physics to justify the fact that they don't believe? And if the atheist isn't a scientist by trade, they take THAT as evidence for the existence of god?

And also, how do you know how much science I've studied? For all you know, a lot.