Re: universal ground zero\ comments from Bernard Lovell

On 28 Nov 2003, "Frank Reichenbacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> screwed
up his face, groaned, pushed hard, and farted out the following message
in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: 

> 
> "jabriol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> You probably know, though, that observations with larger telescopes
>> have since proved otherwise. Our universe contains at least
>> 50,000,000,000 galaxies. We do not mean 50 billion stars-but at least
>> 50 billion 
> galaxies,
>> each with billions of stars like our sun. Yet it was not the
>> staggering quantity of huge galaxies that shook scientific beliefs in
>> the 1920's. It was that they are all in motion.
>>
>> Astronomers discovered a remarkable fact: When galactic light was
>> passed through a prism, the light waves were seen to be stretched,
>> indicating motion away from us at great speed. The more distant a
>> galaxy, the faster 
> it
>> appeared to be receding. That points to an expanding universe!
>>
>> Even if we are neither professional astronomers nor amateurs, we can
>> see that an expanding universe would have profound implications about
>> our past-and perhaps our personal future too. Something must have
>> started the process-a force powerful enough to overcome the immense
>> gravity of the entire universe. You have good reason to ask, 'What
>> could be the source of such dynamic energy?'
>>
>> Although most scientists trace the universe back to a very small,
>> dense beginning (a singularity), we cannot avoid this key issue: "If
>> at some 
> point
>> in the past, the Universe was once close to a singular state of
>> infinitely small size and infinite density, we have to ask what was
>> there before and what was outside the Universe. . . . We have to face
>> the problem of a Beginning."-Sir Bernard Lovell.
> 
> Uhh...yeah. That's pretty much it. Science has no idea what came
> before the Big Bang, and it has no idea what caused the Big Bang.
> 
> Is there a point here?

Of course there is.  Since you don't know, that means Godidit.  Not "the 
Unicorn did it", since Jabbers doesn't believe in the Unicorn.  No, 
Godidit, because Jabriol believes Godidit, and therefore anything that 
we don't know for absolutely sure wasn't done by God defaults to 
Godidit.  Thus we see how the universe comforms perfectly to Jabriol's 
wishes, proving that Jabriol is all-powerful and therefore must be God.  
We can then reduce the equation from "Godidit" to "Jabrioldidit", 
clearing up all manner of confusion and making our lives vastly simpler.  
More ignorant and superstitious, perhaps, but a little ignorance and 
superstition never hurt anyone.  Except those pesky witches, for 
example, who were burned at the stake -- but really, who cares about 
witches?  They've got big noses and they weigh the same as a duck!

-- 
Mekkala, Atheist #2148
"When did I realize I was God?  Well, I was praying and I suddenly 
realized I was talking to myself!"
--Peter O'Toole.