We know too well about the miserable "god of the gap" argument ('since science can't explain this thingie here, so god must have done it'), but isn't this "god of the void" affair becoming ridiculous?
Bonus karmic points: Why couldn't an omnipotent god fill these mindnumbingly gigantic voids with his creation?
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Great 'cosmic nothingness' found
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6962185.stm
Friday, 24 August 2007, 18:14 GMT
" Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across. It is empty of both normal matter - such as galaxies and stars - and the mysterious "dark matter" that cannot be seen directly with telescopes."
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2007-08-25 17:36:23 · 16 answers · asked by par1138 • FCD 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
@ Rev.Albert Einstein:
Given Einstein's scientific stature, everyone wants to claim him for his own agenda. He nevertheless often clearly stated that he rejected traditional religions, the existence of a personal God, or of an afterlife.
2007-08-25 18:05:05 · update #1
@Angeltress:
Einstein left behind not only his scientific papers, but also his personal papers and extensive correspondances. Such primary sources of informations are sorely lacking from anything traditional religions can bring forth.
2007-08-25 18:19:37 · update #2
Okay, hang on a tic while I go ask God what's up, 'K?
He said: "It is the GREAT BEYOND!"
(here there be monsters!)
(wait a minute! That wasn't GOD! That was Little Foot's grandpa!)
(and that pirate mapmaker)
2007-08-25 17:45:24 · answer #1 · answered by Somewhat Enlightened, the Parrot of Truth 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm afraid I don't understand your question.
Are you asking why people believe in God?
Or are you asking why God didn't fill every bit of His universe with something tangible so that scientists could study it?
To the first question...because, that's why. If we choose to believe in God, that is our choice. If you choose not to believe in Him, that's your choice.
Seems fair to me....
To the second question, why would He? Is your front lawn crowded with flowers, or did you leave a space among them?
Why?
Edit:
Isn't it strange how, when a great man has been dead for a few decades, he is always an atheist?
Of course, the man himself is not here any more, so we can't ask him directly...but, since some atheist web site or other says he was an atheist, of course, it must be so.
After all, it's on the web, right??
2007-08-26 01:06:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
We're learning new things every day.
Anything is possible when it comes to things we don't know. Still, the fact of the matter is that some things are more probable than others. Explaining anything as if it were fact without knowing for sure is wrong, but people can believe in god if they want to as long as they don't take it too far.
2007-08-26 00:51:40 · answer #3 · answered by JapAmerican 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God works according to the true laws of nature, and I believe he does, then all matter must come from somewhere. I do not believe in the big bang theory as postulated by science but I do believe that God took matter from other places and made not only this world, but many others also. I think that it would be the height of egotism to believe that we are the only ones created.
2007-08-26 00:49:28 · answer #4 · answered by billyleroyc 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe that's just the way God made it. Why are there blocks and blocks of houses but then there is a lot with nothing in it? I guess no one wanted to build there and I guess God didn't want to put anything in the void you are talking about. Maybe God can see something there but as yet, we can't.
2007-08-26 00:48:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not that there is no answer for it, it's just that God has not given it to us yet. Or did He?
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Who TOLD YOU there was a void out there? Let's face it, a billion light years away from us does not mean we can SEE EVERYTHING out there.
2007-08-26 00:47:22 · answer #6 · answered by witnessnbr1 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
"The scientist is possessed by the sense of universal causation...His religious feeling takes the form of rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals the intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection. - Albert Einstein (theoretical physicist)
2007-08-26 00:43:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So What If They Found A Void. Its For A Purpose
2007-08-26 00:51:07 · answer #8 · answered by engelfeurs 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
perhaps it is as above so below
as within so without
and since some have such vast and empty unused spaces within.....
...... they say we use less than 10percent ( but never say how much less ) of our brain and over 90percent of our DNA is just "junk" DNA yet still passed along generation to generation ......
perhaps those vast and empty spaces out there are of our own fault
2007-08-26 00:56:19 · answer #9 · answered by genntri 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Talk about arrogant, God doesn't have to give you or I all the answers. He wants us to make a decision to come to Him. You want God to fit into a man made puzzle, God doesn't. He exceeds the confines our minds have.
2007-08-26 00:46:30 · answer #10 · answered by Scott B 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋