The scientists checklist

A little note.

This was inspired by a guy out there in internet land who did a "God's Checklist", and proceeded to rip apart Christianity (or at least he thought he was). So I figured using what little knowledge I have of the scientific view of the origin of the universe ,I would pick apart at that.

Just for fun.

I find the scientific arguments easy to pick at, mainly because they have no foundation to start with. What was before the big bang? What happened to start the big bang? On and on I could go. Questions with no answers.


In the beginning...

1) Somewhere, and we don't know where, there is a huge, massive, pile of something. Just sitting there(wherever that is), don't ask. Check

2) Where did this stuff come from? Don't ask. Check.

3) Somehow, this massive pile of something exploded, starting time, gravity and essentially everything. Check

4) How did this thing explode if it started time? Don't ask. Check

5) After billions and billions of years, stuff started to calm down a bit and stars and planets formed. Check

6) On some insignificant planet, many many many random chances happened and life started... spontaneously. The conditions just happened to be right and from no life, comes life. Check

7) So now we have a single celled organism, sitting on this planet, doing what single celled organisms do, and BAM all by itself it decides to self replicate. Interesting. Check

8) Random, chance and mutation change the organism, and make it bigger, and bigger over the generations until it's the size of dinosaurs and whales, instead of just making it more efficient. Check

9) The sun will collapse in on itself, and the universe will do the same, and life has no meaning. It was just an accident, with no significance. Check

10) If I were still an atheist I would have killed myself long ago. Logic brings only one conclusion to this scenario, pointless, meaningless, nothingness. No point, why bother? Check

If my facts are wrong feel free to correct me, I have little actual understanding of the theoretical beginning of the universe. All I know is it makes little logical sense to me.

Argg!! Enough procrastinating

Just to get myself back into the talking to myself groove, I'm going to do another "books you should read" blog... but only 5 this time.

1) The tale of Despereaux, by Kate DiCamillo: A Great children's book(or Young Adult as they call it). I am looking forward to reading this one out loud with the children. Adventure and action galore with a misty old-timey fairy tale feel.

2) The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham: This is actually a book I should re-read, as it has been a while. I remember it as a very well done future dystopia. Lots of tension and mystery. Civilization thrown back into the dark ages.

3) The princess Bride, by William Goldman: Any time I meet a fellow book lover I tell them to read this book. It is an example of writing perfection (my opinion of it). I love the use of fictionally breaking through the fourth wall. Great story, awesome execution.

4) The Hunger Games Trilogy, Suzanne Collins: This is another "Young Adult" series that is fairly popular and has a good story. The writing is mediocre and sometimes the characters are just not as good as they should be, but the story is great. So far I have read two of the three books (last book due in Aug) and the second book is a huge improvement, if the third book is as good as the second I will be happy.

5) The wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum: I was hesitant to start this one, the movie being not so good. Often the movie is not so good, so I gave it a shot and surprise, the book is great! Elizabeth is sitting through entire chapters often asking for more when I stop. The sign of a good book.