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Even if one of the major world religions is right, that's true of the scriptures of all the others.

Two small points for Andy's consideration. The real mindfuck in the Big Bang theory is something that often escapes people. I didn't get it until I read Hawking explain it. It's not that there was this big thing in empty space that exploded and made stars and matter. It's that the Big Bang made...

I'm going to just rehash this point on my way out. Goodnight all.

Yes. No. Okay. So? Yes. Again. What? Maybe. No.

Oh. Right. A couple of hundred million years. No time at all really. It's actually 1,500,000,000 to 2,000,000,000 years according to the fossil record, and while the mechanism behind the origin of life is not understood well enough to put a good timescale on it, I've never seen a suggestion that...

Philosophy has its uses. Determining the origin of the universe isn't one of them. Sort of. In a scientific context, Occam's Razor is used to pick between competing theories which are all consistent with the evidence. It's a convenience: the simplest model is the easiest to use. If there's no...

Don't cut yourself on Occam's Razor there Juve Revolution. The probability that the universe we live in is suited to life is 1. Otherwise we wouldn't be here. That's the anthropic principle. We have no evidence relating to the reasons for it being so. We can make no predictions with any of the...