A cosmic explosion that occurred for no apparent reason, and formed from nowhere, all on its own, and somehow gave birth to organisms, is by definition, a miracle.
2007-09-15 18:52:16 · 14 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
walter e (below) The reason(s) cited today don't even rate to be called a hypothesis. They are merely educated wild guesses. Would you agree?
2007-09-15 19:00:12 · update #1
walter e (below) Correction. You could type hypothesis for days with no proof other than the expanding universe coupled with background radiation. This does not prove anything other than a major event once took place in the middle of nowhere (literally). As for the endless statements of possibilities, they require a vast leap of faith.
2007-09-15 19:07:30 · update #2
Thor (below) The multiverse??? Why is it that unproven theories are being used as facts?
2007-09-15 19:15:13 · update #3
Depends on your definition and knowledge of what is commonplace
2007-09-17 05:18:45 · answer #1 · answered by captain_koyk 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As with any mythology, without any proof or any way of proving these things, we are without answers. Does God exsist? If questions, "If God is a Man," must be asked after the first question is answered. I will not say that Miracles are real or not. A Miracle, as defined by Rogets, is something that only appears unexplanable. Anything that cannot be explained can be a miracle.
I will move on to the theoretical aspect of the Big Bang and simelar scientific explanations. As we know, there is indications of the Big Bang in the slow death of our universe and the expansion of it. Steven Hawking at first believed that the Universe was an unending spiral that contained an endless number of galaxies. He later recinded this theory when his own mathamatics disproved that theory.
Yet each generation discovers an astounding new way to understand the mathamatics of the Universe. There may someday be a unifying theory that may or may not disprove God, but that is a theory in itself.
The expansion theory, or the expansion/contraction theory are still in relative infancy. While such theories as Relativity and Evolution are all but proven, the Big Bang only has one piece of evidence that makes it likely.
Scientists discovered a radio signal that appears as static. They're now using the intensity of this signal and may someday find the center of the universe.
Now the Big Bang operates on a strange sort of consiquences that then makes the question of the Big Bang pale in comparison to the question of where the matter came from that could both exsist in one spot (made up of so many differing elements, or base particles) and become dense enough to explode into space.
The expansion-contraction theory explains that by saying it was always there, and has and will continue it's perpetual motion for eternity.
The more popular theory leaves many more questions, in my personal opinion.
Therefore, by definition, as long as we are trying to explain things, there will be miracles.
By a theological standpoint, if there is a God, miracles will always be possible.
2007-09-15 19:22:20 · answer #2 · answered by The Dude 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe one day we will better understand 'miracles' and just like those who used to believe that the sun was a God (until we discovered it was a ball of fire), we will finally accept the truth. I think the cosmic explosion can be explained by science, mathematics and probability.
A Godly miracle does not demand answers, and that's just wrong. It's like burying your head in the sand and then saying you looked for an answer couldn't find one and so it is a miracle of God.
2007-09-16 18:43:15 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In an infinite multiverse, the creation of our universe was a certainty, not an improbability, and therefore not a miracle. Just because we do not understand something does not make it a miracle.
2007-09-15 19:09:14 · answer #4 · answered by Thor 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everything is a "Miracle".
First things first.....
There is one primary "Miracle"and it needs to be shared.
If a human being can travel within themself, locate and discard all of their own faults, and no longer find faults within other human beings, this would be a "True Miracle".
If a human can perform this "True Miracle", then the mystery of all the other "Miracles", will be revealed to someone that can accomplish this arduous task.
2007-09-15 19:43:53 · answer #5 · answered by WillRogerswannabe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
K, look, I'm going to have to go ask God about this one. He's probably the only one who knows, however, just to warn you, He speaks cryptically at times. Probably because the process is...complicated for our little monkey minds.
He said: It is a reflection of a dream I once had.
I fell asleep, thinking this was something new, (sleeping) and when I woke up, the universe was there.
2007-09-15 19:00:15 · answer #6 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only in the sense that "miracle" is the term used by the ignorant for a phenomenon that they don't understand.
The religious invent their gods and demons to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.
2007-09-15 19:16:14 · answer #7 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything not discovered by science is a Miracle
On till the reason is discovered
love Alf
2007-09-19 10:07:00 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
But it's still better educated guess than a statement that is as unfounded as an uncreated creator!
2007-09-15 19:11:32 · answer #9 · answered by starkneckid 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read Angels and Demons
Yes I know it's just a book but seriously it goes into this. It was a really cool book.
2007-09-15 18:59:05 · answer #10 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋