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<blockquote data-quote="P_Sikh" data-source="post: 53911" data-attributes="member: 4765"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: red">You started off with evolution (and you claim that it was “helped along” by God), yet you show a complete lack of understanding of the evolutionary theory. Is that fair?</span></strong></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Sinister, read my thread again I didn’t start this thread to get the crash course on evolution which teaches us ‘No God’ but to see if anybody could say something about evolution and morality from Sikh point of view. With my continuing Sikh study I’m realising (and agree with Harjas Kaur Khalsa) Sikhism does believe in evolution but with ‘Divine Force’ within us. </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">YOUR SO CALLED COMPUTER GENERATED “UNIVERSAL MODEL” ONLY HAS 2,129 UNIVERSES IN IT! HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY UNIVERSES THERE ARE? WHAT ABOUT IF IT’S IN THE TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS? Who says that the amount of universes are fixed?</span></span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: blue">Yes, there could be billions or trillions universe. Would you say ALL THOOSE CREATED ITSELF if proved there are many? We don’t have any explanation of SINLGE BY CHANCE Universe and if we really come to know about billion/trillions of Universes (Which is possible),</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #993366"> BY CHANCE EVOLUTIONS IGNORING CREATOR wouldn’t find any place to hide on this planet.</span></strong></span></span></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">There seem to be INTELLIGENT COMMON DESIGN PATTERN at every level whether Universe, life, atom or whatever. And Design has no significance without a designer. Why can’t this be possible that our universe controlled by some intelligent life of other Universe(s) and so on in the chain. There is no limit to Creator = God intelligence.</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In your kitchen cabinet you've probably got a spray bottle with an adjustable nozzle, twist the nozzle one way & it sprays a fine mist into the air. Now twist this nozzle the other way & it squirts a jet of water in a straight line. Now you turn that nozzle to the exact position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up a spill, or whatever. </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If the universe had expanded a little faster, the matter would have sprayed out into space like fine mist from a water bottle - so fast that a gazillion particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even form a single star. And if the universe had expanded just a little slower the material would have dribbled out like big drops of water then collapsed back where it came from by the force of gravity. A little too fast and you get a meaningless spray of fine dust. A little too slow and the whole universe collapses back into one big black hole. The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference is. To strike the perfect balance between too fast and too slow, the force, something that physicists call "the Dark Energy Term" had to be accurate to one part in ten with 120 zeros. </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would look like this:</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">In their paper "Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant" two atheist scientists from Stanford University stated that the existence of this dark energy term "Would have required a miracle... </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">An external agent, external to space and time, intervened in cosmic history for reasons of its own."</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Just for comparison the best human engineering example is the ‘Gravity Wave Telescope’ which was built with a precision of 23 zeros. The Designer, the 'external agent' that caused our universe must possess an intellect, knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions of times greater than we humans have. </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Absolutely Amazing.</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Now a person who doesn't believe in God has to find some way to explain this. One of the more common explanations seems to be "There was an infinite number of universes, so it was inevitable that things would have turned out right in at least one of them."</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The "Infinite Universes" theory is truly an amazing theory. </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of universes then absolutely everything is not only possible...</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">It's actually happened! </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Some people believe in God with a capital G.</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C.</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Case study: </span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Imagine your sitting in a freshman organic chemistry examination and you get a question that asks you to explain why two reagents interact and bond.</span></span></span></strong></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><strong><span style="color: red">If you answer: “it is the will of God and was guided by some unexplained “external-Godly force”, you would get a big fat ZERO as a grade</span></strong><strong><span style="color: #993366">.</span></strong></span></span></p><p><strong><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Now Consider the situation reverse, if you are BY CHANCE EVOLUTIONIST and you answered ‘this might have happened by chance. Our Universe came in existence by chance, earth formed By chance, life came and evolved by chance, why can’t these two reagents interact by chance’, how many marks would you score BIG FAT ZERO. </span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="color: #993366"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Conclusion from my point of view (Not forcing you to accept)</span></span></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Where ever I turn, I see ‘Something of God in Everything’ including you. You ALL ARE PART OF THE SAME INFINITE LOOP.</span></span></span></strong></p><p> </p><p>Sorry, text mistake</p><p> </p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff"><span style="color: red">Not You</span> </span></span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #0000ff">WE ALL ARE PART OF THE SAME INFINITE LOOP.</span></span></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="P_Sikh, post: 53911, member: 4765"] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][COLOR=red]You started off with evolution (and you claim that it was “helped along” by God), yet you show a complete lack of understanding of the evolutionary theory. Is that fair?[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][COLOR=blue][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Sinister, read my thread again I didn’t start this thread to get the crash course on evolution which teaches us ‘No God’ but to see if anybody could say something about evolution and morality from Sikh point of view. With my continuing Sikh study I’m realising (and agree with Harjas Kaur Khalsa) Sikhism does believe in evolution but with ‘Divine Force’ within us. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]YOUR SO CALLED COMPUTER GENERATED “UNIVERSAL MODEL” ONLY HAS 2,129 UNIVERSES IN IT! HOW DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY UNIVERSES THERE ARE? WHAT ABOUT IF IT’S IN THE TRILLIONS UPON TRILLIONS? Who says that the amount of universes are fixed?[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][COLOR=blue]Yes, there could be billions or trillions universe. Would you say ALL THOOSE CREATED ITSELF if proved there are many? We don’t have any explanation of SINLGE BY CHANCE Universe and if we really come to know about billion/trillions of Universes (Which is possible),[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#993366] BY CHANCE EVOLUTIONS IGNORING CREATOR wouldn’t find any place to hide on this planet.[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][COLOR=blue][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]There seem to be INTELLIGENT COMMON DESIGN PATTERN at every level whether Universe, life, atom or whatever. And Design has no significance without a designer. Why can’t this be possible that our universe controlled by some intelligent life of other Universe(s) and so on in the chain. There is no limit to Creator = God intelligence.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]In your kitchen cabinet you've probably got a spray bottle with an adjustable nozzle, twist the nozzle one way & it sprays a fine mist into the air. Now twist this nozzle the other way & it squirts a jet of water in a straight line. Now you turn that nozzle to the exact position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up a spill, or whatever. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]If the universe had expanded a little faster, the matter would have sprayed out into space like fine mist from a water bottle - so fast that a gazillion particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even form a single star. And if the universe had expanded just a little slower the material would have dribbled out like big drops of water then collapsed back where it came from by the force of gravity. A little too fast and you get a meaningless spray of fine dust. A little too slow and the whole universe collapses back into one big black hole. The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference is. To strike the perfect balance between too fast and too slow, the force, something that physicists call "the Dark Energy Term" had to be accurate to one part in ten with 120 zeros. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would look like this:[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=blue][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]In their paper "Disturbing Implications of a Cosmological Constant" two atheist scientists from Stanford University stated that the existence of this dark energy term "Would have required a miracle... [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=blue][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]An external agent, external to space and time, intervened in cosmic history for reasons of its own."[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Just for comparison the best human engineering example is the ‘Gravity Wave Telescope’ which was built with a precision of 23 zeros. The Designer, the 'external agent' that caused our universe must possess an intellect, knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions of times greater than we humans have. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Absolutely Amazing.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Now a person who doesn't believe in God has to find some way to explain this. One of the more common explanations seems to be "There was an infinite number of universes, so it was inevitable that things would have turned out right in at least one of them."[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]The "Infinite Universes" theory is truly an amazing theory. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of universes then absolutely everything is not only possible...[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]It's actually happened! [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Some people believe in God with a capital G.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Case study: [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=red][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Imagine your sitting in a freshman organic chemistry examination and you get a question that asks you to explain why two reagents interact and bond.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman][B][COLOR=red]If you answer: “it is the will of God and was guided by some unexplained “external-Godly force”, you would get a big fat ZERO as a grade[/COLOR][/B][B][COLOR=#993366].[/COLOR][/B][/FONT][/SIZE] [B][COLOR=blue][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Now Consider the situation reverse, if you are BY CHANCE EVOLUTIONIST and you answered ‘this might have happened by chance. Our Universe came in existence by chance, earth formed By chance, life came and evolved by chance, why can’t these two reagents interact by chance’, how many marks would you score BIG FAT ZERO. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=#993366][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Conclusion from my point of view (Not forcing you to accept)[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [B][COLOR=blue][SIZE=3][FONT=Times New Roman]Where ever I turn, I see ‘Something of God in Everything’ including you. You ALL ARE PART OF THE SAME INFINITE LOOP.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] Sorry, text mistake [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff][COLOR=red]Not You[/COLOR] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [B][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#0000ff]WE ALL ARE PART OF THE SAME INFINITE LOOP.[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][/B] [/QUOTE]
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