Comments by "Myles Platt" (@melsop54) on "Professor Dave Explains"
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This is fascinating as a Christian, because most of us simply ignore this information. But if I am to believe that God is responsible for this universe and all it's laws...I'd be ignorant to deny the very laws he created and what they seem to indicate. I've come to accept the age of the universe and it's beginning according to this video. I think where we all, regardless of our positions, begin to assume things is at the singularity that was once everything in this universe. If the universe does have a finite beginning, and a finite size, then it stands to reason that that singularity had a beginning. We can assume it does, or it doesn't and has always exploded, expanded, and contracted...but ultimately (in the absence of evidence of things prior to the big bang) we are making assumptions. If we are to accept it did have a beginning, then we must posture the existence of a beginner. Be it God or an alternate universe this one is contained within. With the alternate universe idea though, we'd have to assume that Russian doll of sorts can go on forever and ever...which would contrast with a finite universe. At any rate, I can say as a Christian, I have become able to reconcile my faith and Science in pretty huge ways. The more I learn, the more I see it actually doesn't effect the reality of my faith personally.
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This may get me flack here, but I'll say it anyway. I'm an Evangelical Christian myself...but I also understand, if I am to hold that position, that God created the laws of physics that govern the universe we are in, I am obligated to accept what those physics indicate lest I deny the work of God himself. I am of the belief that God created the incredible machine between our ears, so I must not just dismiss what that machine can figure out. If the speed of light has never changed (and there's no reason for us to think it has), I am forced to acknowledge the age of the universe as measured based on distances between objects in space. Which also means I am forced to further think about what I am reading in Genesis with regards to creation. If it is a literal historical record of the origin of the universe, or if it is more poetic and parabolic. I compare this to the concept of tithing. Any Christian will agree that tithing can not only be practiced by growing a crop today and bringing the first fruits of it to the storehouse. We are happy to concede that that scripture was written by an agricultural society that mainly bartered and traded cattle/food. As such, they described the underlying truth of the tithing concept from the perspective they had. We SHOULD be able to apply that throughout scripture.
At any rate, I'm ok with whatever flack I may get here for maintaining the Christian worldview, but I am also happy to accept the irrefutable evidence that science provides.
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@Globeisahoaxx https://youtu.be/c8W-auqg024
And lastly, take videos like this for example. People ALL over the world send balloons up rhis high all the time. People in Australia, America, Europe, Russia, China, etc. In EVERY video...the view is same earth below with the horizon being equal distance away in all directions. With that, all these balloons come back down to within 5 miles of where they started. So, on a flat earth, they all rise to the same exact point so that the horizon is equally distance in all directions (otherwise you would inevitably be able to see the ice wall and over it from places like Australia at this height no? Certainly someone would have done this to show the edge of the earth by now) and then they all independent of human interaction fall back down in different directions finding their way back to where they each began respectively (physically impossible), or they each fly up from a certain point on the globe, and as it's a globe, the horizon naturally appears equally distant in all directions no matter where you are at on the globe, and then the balloons simply fall relatively straight back down landing a few miles away from where they began at most.
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As an evangelical Christian, I have grown to understand some things from a scientific perspective. In keeping everything in perspective of my faith, I can fully accept that God inspired scripture AND created the basic laws of physics and other laws we can observe and endlessly test around us. The idea of the universe being billions of years old doesn't necessarily fly in the face of Scripture. Scripture is clear when it says to God, a day is like a 1000 years and a thousand years like a day. Therefore, it is entirely feasible that, what God considered a day in the bible...could easily be equivalent to what we know as millions or billions of years. BLOWS my mind when Christians fall in to the flat earth nonsense for that matter, when verifiable scientific laws around us dictate that earth MUST be a sphere. This in addition to any photo or video of the earth ever taken lol! Scientific laws and basic observation tell us the universe is expanding, and therefore that it HAS to be expanding from what was once a singular point that therefore contained everything in the universe. I differ in the reasoning for that singular point and how/why it was there. As we know matter and energy can not be created or destroyed according to the laws within this physical universe we find ourselves in, it stands to reason that the singular point all matter and energy was once in must have been held in a place outside of that physical universe. At this point, what science tries to explain as possibly alien life, or a second universe, I would describe as God. Either way, it would require an unmovable mover of sorts that is not bound to the laws and physics of this universe. I think, if one actually studies scripture well enough, Science and Scripture actually support each other rather than starkly contradict eachother.
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