Approaching God from a scientific point of view
Posted: April 16th, 2018, 12:11 pm
Approaching God from a scientific point of view
I’d like open this thread by asking a question: would atheists be willing to entertain the idea of a god notion if god was scientifically approachable?
Important, I do not aim to discuss any doctrines or religious views or teachings here.
First of all I’d like to touch on immortality. There are a few ideas I’d like to borrow from Star Trek, which are in accordance or quasi accordance with scientific theory.
Number one, Time dilation. We all should be familiar with the fact that traveling at relativistic speeds could change time and that one might return to a world that could be much older than you. In the episodes of Star Trek Voyager, “Gravity” and “In the blink of an eye,” similar situations were encountered. In the episode “Gravity” Tom Paris, the Doctor, and Tuvok crash-landed on a desert-like planet, only to discover later that there was a time difference between them and Voyager. They spent months on this world, while in reality only a few days went by for the rest of the universe. On the episode “In the blink of an eye,” Voyager came across and was caught in orbit of a planet with a high rotation, which had the same effect on them. The people of this planet viewed them in the beginning as a new god/star, which they revered. Voyager literally saw civilizations rise and fall, until the inhabitants of the planet eventually achieved the technological ability to help them break orbit.
Secondly, there was another double episode on ST Voyager, called, “Year of Hell,” where voyager encountered a species with temporal technology. In this double episode, there was a “time-ship,” capable of altering history by erasing planets and other objects from time. What I’m interested in this episode, is how the crew from the time ship managed to stay free from the change they caused. Their temporal shields kept them out of alignment with space-time, which granted them, (in a sense), immortality.
Lastly, I’d like to consider our life-span to that of certain animals. Some animals have very short life spans, whereas other creatures may live much longer than we do, yet we inhabit the same planet and space-time.
Drawing from all this information, could a being exist for whom time passes differently than us? Also, could that being be viewing the rest of the universe from a place or dimension that exists in time dilation to ours? Lastly could a being exist, whose DNA is free from the defect of aging?
I’d like open this thread by asking a question: would atheists be willing to entertain the idea of a god notion if god was scientifically approachable?
Important, I do not aim to discuss any doctrines or religious views or teachings here.
First of all I’d like to touch on immortality. There are a few ideas I’d like to borrow from Star Trek, which are in accordance or quasi accordance with scientific theory.
Number one, Time dilation. We all should be familiar with the fact that traveling at relativistic speeds could change time and that one might return to a world that could be much older than you. In the episodes of Star Trek Voyager, “Gravity” and “In the blink of an eye,” similar situations were encountered. In the episode “Gravity” Tom Paris, the Doctor, and Tuvok crash-landed on a desert-like planet, only to discover later that there was a time difference between them and Voyager. They spent months on this world, while in reality only a few days went by for the rest of the universe. On the episode “In the blink of an eye,” Voyager came across and was caught in orbit of a planet with a high rotation, which had the same effect on them. The people of this planet viewed them in the beginning as a new god/star, which they revered. Voyager literally saw civilizations rise and fall, until the inhabitants of the planet eventually achieved the technological ability to help them break orbit.
Secondly, there was another double episode on ST Voyager, called, “Year of Hell,” where voyager encountered a species with temporal technology. In this double episode, there was a “time-ship,” capable of altering history by erasing planets and other objects from time. What I’m interested in this episode, is how the crew from the time ship managed to stay free from the change they caused. Their temporal shields kept them out of alignment with space-time, which granted them, (in a sense), immortality.
Lastly, I’d like to consider our life-span to that of certain animals. Some animals have very short life spans, whereas other creatures may live much longer than we do, yet we inhabit the same planet and space-time.
Drawing from all this information, could a being exist for whom time passes differently than us? Also, could that being be viewing the rest of the universe from a place or dimension that exists in time dilation to ours? Lastly could a being exist, whose DNA is free from the defect of aging?