I agree that this has been the case, that religion has lost it's influence over people because it's been based on hearsay and fairy tales in books, not to mension all the suffering and problems it has caused people, while science has given more thorough and believable explanations. But it seems the scientists have reached a dead end here, where it's starting to be more theories and beliefs than proven facts, like the 4th dimension is time, travelling faster than light makes you travel back in time, string theory, multiple universes, membranes clashing into each other created the universe. Now... How is this a better explanation than saying there is a creator that started it all?
I saw someone posted somewhere that if he could travel around the planet faster than light he would go back and see the earth from the past. I am sure that the only thing that would happen is that everything would get blurry because images are stretched out, or maybe he wouldn't see anything at all because the light would miss his retina. But when he stops he would still be here in the present.
As I've mensioned before I'm sure time is a human made up concept, because we have memory and the ability to think ahead.
The solar system just happens to have a regular movement pattern which is just cause and effect, which gives the illusion of time.
I'm not SAYING that there is a god that created the universe. I just say that it's a possibility. You have this problem with the comological constant for instance, which says the probability for the universe to function as it does is too astronomical small to be by pure chance. If there had just been a tiny error the universe would have colapsed or never begun. And the fact is that the scientists claims that the law of physics break down when trying to find out what made it all and where it began.
Here's a video that mensions that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfngxVQiiTI
People seem to get confused with Einstein and light and the 4th dimension. It's quite simple, as the source of the light exists in time, it grows outward into infinity. As time changes, the distance seems to grow but they are exactly the same, only after time. He was playing on the idea that light had an ether, that is how he came up with his theory of relativity. The 4th dimension was proposed as the ether for time. To say one can travel back in time is both true and false. We can never travel back to a time on the earth, but the light from the past can be percieved in the present. So every star we see is most likely dead. Given the average life span of a star, the speed of light and the massive distance, we experience the night sky on an average time-lag of at least 1 billion years. The information shows it at that position as it was then, but now it has already changed. So to say that staring at an object far away and having a lapse between what happened on point a and when it was seen at point b ten million light-years away, and something just created it is the same; is like saying that a miracle and god are the same thing. A miracle is just the coincidence of very improbable events happening in an improbable time; its not to say they dont happen, but no simple explination or current scientific explination stands to understand how or why these thigns happen. But to understand the universe requires more thought than any person on this Forum.
So simply explaining the 4th dimension:
It is a dependent axis which colapses around every object, but ot only one object is it dependant. So we have a Star-A, and a Star-B. Star-A is brand new, the nebula formation light hasn't even reached Star-B. Star-B is particulairly small in mass and is beeining pushed away from Star-A by Dark-Matter (scientifically proven using gravitational imaging, still controverseal, yet Einstein's greatest blunder was predicting its exsistance). Star-A travels at one Light-year away from Star-B; because this happens Star-B is never seen by Star-A, but Star-B sees all of Star-A's forming, then nothing the colors shifted due to the dopler effect. Let's say the opposite were the case, and Star A and Star-B are moving towards eachother. Not only will both their birth's be witnessed by any viewer on any star, but their deaths will happen at the same time, and be whitnessed by any survivors x-years later, unless they colide, at which point their time references are close enough. So the 4th dimension is an expading dimension into infinity. Alternate Universes is just the belief that really far away, so far we haven't even seen its explosion, another Universe was created from nothing to; its not so far-fetched. But saying some being created it is hard to believe.
He illustrated this very same principle on a train with a clock. A man positioned 60 meteres from a clock on a train wants to know what time it is. Light travels extremely fast, so he sees the time on the clock with relative ease; the difference int he trains speed is insigificant, since time's vector is not velocity/force dependant, and seems to carry no true weight. But say we speed the train up to 1/2 the speed of light, now the clokc is 1/2 as accurate, about 1/2 second off by his standards. Still to small to notice. So we accelerate the train to the speed of light, the light from the clock would never reach the man until he slowed down, at which point all the light would catch up and the clock would seem to fast-forward. But because time and space are related in a very parciluar way, it is not possible for most living organisms to accelerate to such a speed in less than the average African lifespan. The fact of physics failing to explain it has to do with theories that had nothing disproving it. THe mroe advanced we become, the more advanced the scientific answer becomes. A static universe was thought to exist, but EInstein calculated that the Universe would have to colapse or expand, but could not be stationary.
Anti-Matter was thought to not exist, and now its more and mroe common knowledge as how things work. Dark Matter is now being used to explain the structure of space. But the one theory of Chaos and Disorder is constant and true throughout the Universe, the only reason their is life on Earth is because their is constant change; change is a frequency and an energy. These two must be present for life to exist, without it there is only a energy depleted universe. Which in a few billion years the Universe will so outspread that everything in it will be near absolute zero. Secondly, everything has to be pure chance because Ape=Descendants of a highly evolved brain with almost no real defenses against the outside world or themselves has inherited the Earth; all studies are by some chance a part of the Human Genome. Our intuitive desire to explore and learn is what makes us ponder. The chance of anything in the Universe happening is in constant change, as it changes constantly, since everything has an effect: chaos theory; Fractals.
