5 Reasons Why I Hate Religious Christianity

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80. Argument from design. Also known as the teleological argument.

I know someone who would be happy to explain the Big Bang and the origin of the universe to you. He can talk about the strong nuclear force, gravity, general relativity, special relativity, and lots of other concepts in physics to you. Such as the Planck length, the Planck constant, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the Schrodinger equation, the Compton wavelength, angular momentum, the deBroglie hypothesis about photons (light) acting like waves or particles, the Fitzgerald-Lorenz transformation in relativity when you near the speed of light, and anything else you want to know in quantum mechanics.

My husband has a B.S. and M.S. in physics and is fascinated with subatomic particles (quarks), their characteristics(spin, color, charm and strangeness), and the forces working at such tiny distances. The kind of stuff they are working on at CERN in Switzerland.

He'd be glad to discuss the forces with you. And he knows his calculus and other higher math pretty well. In college, he was known as "that guy that hangs out at the student union and talks in equations".

There are billions of galaxies, billions or trillions of stars and planets.

Our Sun is an average star, operating on nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium at very high temperatures, and we are on a pretty average planet, especially since NASA has discovered a lot more planets around stars with their space telescopes. Basically, the further out into space we can see, the more it looks like our solar system and our earth are not exceptional.

Edwin Hubble, due to observing red shift, confirmed the Friedmann hypothesis of the expansion of space, based on general relativity, popularly known as the Big Bang. This was in 1931. The universe is expanding, and at this point it is 13.7 billion light-years across, as far as we know.

Thinking about huge distances in light-years and the formation of the universe is far more awe inspiring to me than old stories about a petty, small-minded mass murdering god in the bible who is supposedly the creator of ridiculous rules. Reading about all the pioneers of science and astronomy such as Galileo (held under house arrest by the church), Copernicus, Kepler (whose mother was imprisoned for years on suspicion of being a witch, Newton, Einstein, and many others, is inspiring. Fighting against a church who thought the world was flat and stamped out scientific investigation by imprisoning and barbecuing scientists, torturing them alive. We could not have landed humans on the moon without the foundations provided by the people I mentioned. Landing men on the moon is a glorious accomplishment based on Newton's laws of motion and Kepler's laws of planetary motion, among other things.

“How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.”

― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space