[Magdalen] neat comparisons

[James Oppenheimer]

I simply can't get my head around it. It is so vast, it just makes no
sense; I cannot understand it at all.  And there you have it.  I do not
understand it at all, but that is not important. Whether or not I
understand it, the universe is unfolding as it should, and we should all be
at peace with our soul. We don't understand it; but God does.

I think the early church made a big mistake in assuming that it could
discuss, debate and ultimately decide those big questions; it could not,
and it cannot.  Honesty should have made the assembly state, "We do not
know."  But they just couldn't do that, and we have been sucked into a
false assumption universe ever since that holds that we CAN answer those
questions for which there is no objective answer.

Proof?  There is NO such thing.  I can't even prove that I love my wife.

James W. Oppenheimer
*“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better
for people coming behind you, and you don’t do it, you're wasting your time
on this Earth.”  -- *Roberto Clemente

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:25 AM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 13/10/2014 18:36, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
>
>> It's getting harder with such space discoveries to fit any  terrestrial
>> religion
>> into all this, not excluding Judeo-Christianity.   At least it is  for me.
>>
>
> Isn't this looking at the issue from the wrong direction?  I have no
> problem conceptualizing the possibility of a number of parallel universes
> but the God I put my trust in is the source of this and any other possible
> universes.  This means that, by definition, God is outside of them all -
> and of the black holes.  As such we should not be trying to fit our faith
> into the new discoveries but seeking to see how they inform and enrich our
> understanding of God and the relationship between the divine and humanity.
>
> As for the black holes themselves from what little I have read it would be
> theoretically possible to pass through one that is spinning but not one
> that is not and simply absorbs all that comes its way, hence increasing its
> gravitational attraction exponentially. Currently the universe is expanding
> and that furthest away from us is moving away fastest.
>
> This leads to speculation as to what will happen in the future. Will it
> continue to expand or might we get the Big Crash with everything collapsing
> back into an infinitessimally small space? Scientists theorize that the
> universe as we know it originated from just such a singularity so we would
> all be back where we began after all the stars have burnt out.  Might it
> all then start again?
>
> Roger
>