Calculations done on page 253 of information provided by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in book on Bhagavad -Gita.
2007-09-22 12:31:19 · 4 answers · asked by Washington 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Certainly. But odds are you won't accept the proof, so why bother? Your proof is based on religious faith, so saying "14.5 Billion years as shown by measurements of supernovas" is as useful as saying "6000 years as shown by the Christian Bible" in terms of budging you from your position.
2007-09-22 12:36:21 · answer #1 · answered by Dvandom 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not true that all denominations think that they alone are the right one (although that is certainly true of the JWs). In Protestantism, hardly any denomination have an exclusive view of their own group; I've been to many different groups and they all agree that Christian brethren are to be found in a huge range of other denominations, including the Catholics. They do fear that some groups are burdening their flock with man-made rules and obstacles to grasping God's pure truth, but that is not the same as the JWs who are much more severe in their censure of all others. For example, I have two Watchtower magazines here (about 8 years between them) which quote Jeremiah to say the clergy of Christendom are like the burst-open figs that cannot be eaten for badness. I have no end of books and magazines where the Watchtower Society calls all religions other than their own as part of Babylon the Great, the prostitute in Revelation who is going to be destroyed just before Armageddon. It is unreasonable to expect fulsome answers to all six of your questions, so pardon me for just sticking to the main one, and adding that the biblical gospel is preached by myriad denominations to myriad people in myriad ways. But their gospel message is not the same as the JW one, and that is what should seriously worry the JWs. They need to check out, from the Bible, what the gospel is that Paul and the other disciples preached in the first century, and stick to that.
2016-05-21 01:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First, there is no reason whatever to take this seriously. Second, all of our observations of the expansion of the universe point to a singularity just over 14 billion years ago. So far, nothing has been found to contradict that, so any conjecture beyond that is problematic.
2007-09-22 17:44:50 · answer #3 · answered by Frank N 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sure, I've been around for 26 years, the world just didn't exist before that.
2007-09-22 12:36:28 · answer #4 · answered by bagalagalaga 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋