11.22.08
Stumbling Upon the Big Bang
I’ve been away from my blog for a looooong time. I have no excuse, but it’s not like I need one, right? It’s my blog, after all, hehe.
Lately, I’ve joined up with StumbleUpon, a web service that lets you “stumble” through the web at the click of a button. You can set a few paramaters as to what sort of general content you’re interested in and then you’re on your way. I’ve come across quite a few interesting sites. One of them happened to have an explanation of the Big Bang that seemed good enough for the layperson. Upon reading it, though, I couldn’t help but post the following review.
The universe created itself out of nothing. This new something expanded into nothing, and cooled (because when nothing becomes something and expands, it gets hot). Following this, the infinitesimally small gravitational energy of the new tiny somethings that came from nothing draws the new tiny somethings together, forming stars, rocks, and planets. Gravity does, of course, exist for these new somethings, because nothing likes to come up with natural laws when it becomes something. The page doesn’t continue with Earth history, but hey, I’m having fun. Here on Earth, the something that came from nothing eventually became muddy slime, or whatever the abiogenesis fad is these days. The natural laws that came from nowhere decided that plain stuff wasn’t fun enough, so it lumped together this stuff with some other stuff (we’re still not quite sure which natural laws were responsible for this bizarre act; they probably died from old age, since we haven’t seen them around lately). This new stuff wiggled around, ate stuff, and made more of its own stuff. This new stuff was bored, though, so whenever it made more of its own stuff it changed its routine a little. Eventually, the routine changed this stuff so much that its various incarnations had feet, paws, wings, eyes, tentacles, hands, and all manner of extremely complicated organs, including brains. These brains, because of these natural laws that came from nowhere, are able to finally piece it all together, because when nothing becomes something and then becomes us, it all makes sense.
The article’s address is here:
http://www.astronomybuff.com/the-big-bang-was-an-explosion-of-space-not-in-space/
Among the other articles I’ve come across, there have been a few neat Bible sites, as well as things pertaining to general science and archaeology. I’ve also been brought to a few humanist and gay sites providing a glimpse into their realms of bad reasoning and straw man attacks. Interesting how the reviews for such material tend to be rather positive, while Answers in Genesis really gets the short end of the stick. Try looking at the reviews for the Creation Museum homepage and you’ll find a flood of thumbs down reviews. It’s funny and yet sad that practically none of those said reviews offer any intellectual stimulation. They can be lumped together into either the category a) vitriolic straw man arguments or b) vitriolic ad hominim attacks. Thus are the ways of those who hate God.
