It’s not some “Big” secret. Cern particle physics laboratory in Switzerland publishes it’s findings regularly. Nearly all the Astronomy Observatories and affiliated laboratories and organizations the world over, freely share their findings with the rest of the world regularly. And these are just two examples of all the wondrous fonts of information that are flowing out of all the multitude of scientific method going on today.
With all due respect, all this is just a tad more interesting than what I was brought up to believe, namely, the Bible. Yawn.
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Do They Really Wonder Why We “atheists” Get So Much Delight Pondering The “known Universe”?
Posted on December 10, 2012.
With all due respect to you and your associates at CERN, the Bible while written down many centuries ago still is the only thing that human beings need to explain the universe and man’s place in it. Everything else is details. At least that is what a christian told me.
I really don’t see the point of this continuous sniping between atheists and those who believe in a God. Many scientists are Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu etc just as many don’t hold to any religion. I am a scientist, but I refuse to debate my own beliefs or lack of them, whatever they may be. It is a pity others don’t do the same!
The truth is that the known Universe is boring and meaningless. Why would I get excited about a bunch of rocks floating around in Space? In what way does it improve my life knowing how many Planets are out there? Astronomy and Space exploration are essentially a multi-trillion dollar game of train spotting for obsessive geeks and a handful of thrill-seeking astronauts, there’s no real value in it beyond launching communications satellites.
The Bible is mostly just a collection of allegorical stories but a lot of people want to believe in a world of magic and mystery where angels come out of the sky and wizards walk on water. Of course it’s not real but if it were real it would be a hell of a lot more interesting than looking at photographs of stars.
Do you know that we theists get exactly the same delight pondering the exact same things reading the exact same journals? Except we have wider tastes and can appreciate the spiritual dimensions in life not just the physical.
Just as meat eaters can enjoy vegetables as much as vegetarians do but we have a broader pallat, so we theists can ponder the mysteries of the universe exactly the same as you can but we have broader interests.
I am a atheist but i don`t go around letting the world know(this is a very rare time).I do not think that most scientists and astronomers who are religious look at the universe in a different way than what i looking at the universe (they know the wonders of the cosmos and how it works and still believe in a god nothing wrong with that)so why would anyone such as yourself get so much pleasure going about telling the world you are an atheist is beyond me!!
I have read the bible a couple of times as i like the stories in it but that does not make me religious at all.
People have the right to believe in what ever they like and should not have to take any c.r.a.p for it but some people just can`t help themselves (that goes for atheists and religious people alike)