No Big Bang? Quantum equation predicts universe has no beginning.

Jon said:

it's a classic in my line of work.

it would be funnier if I hadn't experienced it so often

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In my line of work (computer systems analyst), I get my fair share too.

In a former job I spent a great deal of time capturing data and producing results. Generally these were large data sets that needed to be analyzed from tests of military systems. I understand setting up tests to prove a hypothesis, replication, and unexpected factors better than the average guy. I have also experienced my fair share of people trying to draw conclusions where there are none to get a system to pass muster or fail.

Science interests me a great deal. I enjoy reading the journals and finding out (at least as much as I can understand) what the current beliefs are, applications we can use them for. However, it is getting harder to actually have a discussion when my beliefs automatically disqualify me from serious discussion.

Since it is obviously going there anyway, Explaining my position on God is like the old mice in the piano parable. Like the inquisitive mouse, we can sometimes figure out how some things work (the beautiful sound is just coming from string vibrations). We can also identify causes and effects (the vibrations were caused by hammers hitting the strings) and miss the fact that someone is playing the piano. Values that have been in history deemed constant are continually found not to be so constant. I believe it is obvious that something is at work besides random occurrences that statistically were bound to happen in a universe the size and scope of ours. That is a layer of my belief system, but not the only thing that makes me believe.

If you really want empirical evidence (by means of observation and experimentation) and are willing to actually run the tests, there are several specific tests and results one should expect given in scripture. They have always proven true. In fact they have been more consistently replicable than anything the scientists I worked with ever produced.

So there is that.

Yes sometimes I feel like the girl in the video trying to figure out why three lines can't all be perpendicular with each other when delving into explaining the physics of what they are finding. I have also been on the other side trying to explain to someone that didn't care why something would not work. They wanted it to work so badly that they wouldn't listen. I have also been in the position that someone showed me a method I was unaware of proving I was wrong to think it couldn't be done.

But really, the science behind the article and their findings does interest me, and I didn't intend this to get to a "see they were wrong again nyah-na-na-na-na" thing.