No Creator God

[Oniw17]

No...for the earth to be in the centre, everything in the universe has to be in motion such that the earth stays in the centre, since the earth has a measurable movement. As well, since as far as we have discovered, the universe is expanding constantly, to say that the earth "stays" in the centre of the universe would mean that the expansion also occurs to the convenience of the Earth's position. Obviously this is a brave and unreasonable assumption.

Yup, it's unreasonable, but there's always that chance.

(anyone willing to take a bet that Oniw would say "maybe the universe isn't expanding").

I'll take that bet. You lose.

It is more reasonable to assume that there is no centre (at least no consistent detectable centre) since the universal "container" is always changing.

Yup.

Oniw...Earth really isn't that important.

It has life. How many other planets can you say that for?

 

[Sarkus]

It has life. How many other planets can you say that for?

And "life", in the grand scheme of the Universe's lifetime, is important.... why?

 

[baumgarten]

Without life, there is no such thing as importance; importance is predicated upon a life form to assign it. So, to us, since we cannot currently exist without it, the earth is very, very important.

 

[Sarkus]

Without life, there is no such thing as importance; importance is predicated upon a life form to assign it. So, to us, since we cannot currently exist without it, the earth is very, very important.

So from the Universe's perspective we are not important.
From our own, of course we are.

It's all a matter of perspective.

 

[Enterprise-D]

I'll take that bet. You lose.

lol shux!

So from the Universe's perspective we are not important.
From our own, of course we are.

It's all a matter of perspective.

Which is a major reason why so many people insist that there's a god that thinks we're that important.

 

[baumgarten]

So from the Universe's perspective we are not important.
From our own, of course we are.

It's all a matter of perspective.

The Universe does not have a perspective.