You're young.
When I arrived, it still had that new car smell.
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How old is the Universe? And what is future of the universe?
- Thread starter Subhankar Zac
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When I arrived, it still had that new car smell.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
But I'm old for a bear...besides I think it hung up one of those little tree car fresheners from its rear view mirror by the time I arrived
First Baseman
Retired athlete
I'm not impressed at all. Next week they might go back to 5 billion or boost it up to 23 billion. Who knows? It just shows how much you wish to depend upon a wild guess that is based on speculation.
Even 23 bil is in the same range as 5 & 14.
Contrast this with biblically based estimates of 6K to 10K years.
Boy, oh boy.....it must be embarrassing to try to defend those claims.
My perspective is to not use the Lore at all, since it's pretty silent on this matter. My own myth for how the Universe was born is my own story that I came up with, and not represented anywhere in Lore. It absolutely is figurative, not literal.
Meanwhile, physicists have calculated the age of the Universe to be 13.8 billion years old. I'm willing to trust that those calculations are accurate.
No, it is 13.8 billions years old. And if they claim otherwise in the future, I am going to write a holy book that fixes the age once and for all.
Problem solved.
Ciao
- viole
First Baseman
Retired athlete
Not at all. Anyway, those claims are based on the generations from Adam to Jesus found in Matthew and the OT. The Bible never comes out and says "the earth is 6-10,000 years old." I'm afraid that is an assumption as well.
First Baseman
Retired athlete
Well, unless you are as well read as Einstein or Newton no one will care what you write. Problem still there.
Subhankar Zac
Hare Krishna,Hare Krishna,
This thread is about personal ideas or theories.
What you've stated sounds like you're dodging it. Your religious views might have an opinion on it.
This is why I used the carefully worded "bibically based" to refer to those who reason from Bible based premises.
You see.....I'm familiar with what many believers say, but I don't claim anything about what's in the Bible (having never read it).
Subhankar Zac
Hare Krishna,Hare Krishna,
That's the difference between science and Catholic apologetics.
One evolves with new evidence while the other dodges the question entirely.
First Baseman
Retired athlete
Everybody has an opinion on it. What no one has is a definite answer. And, like I said, we've got enough problems in the present to worry about the past.
We actually do know. It will certainly be a chaotic sky, but the stars are so far apart that they most likely won't ever meet.
First Baseman
Retired athlete
We just don't care. We focus on the now and tomorrow.
Nope. I will claim divine inspiration. Or appeal to Einstein soul communicating with me.
Would you then believe me?
Ciao
- viole
First Baseman
Retired athlete
The galaxies might not collide. Some major event could happen that would alter one or the course of both.
First Baseman
Retired athlete
Yep. If you were a prophet or an Apostle of Jesus I would believe you. Since you're not...
Subhankar Zac
Hare Krishna,Hare Krishna,
No, it simply makes silly reasons such as creating everything out of nothing. Making earth first which was filled with water, making light first then the Sun. Making plants before making the Sun.
Etc.
And Adam and eve are a highly unlikely scenario unless incest makes excellent babies.
The life of Brahma, per various Hindu scriptures is much longer than the age of the universe. It's reasonable to assume that the universe is created and ends many times during Brahma's life.I don't use scriptures as science books... It's just the possibility I hold and will believe if proven.
Christian claim of 6000 years is proven false..
I don't know about the Islamic ones.
But since the Hindu version of 8.64 billion too is prove false, I'll stick too 14 billion years too but also keep an open mind about 155.05 trillion years.