Example‚ Neil introduced the Cosmic address (Earth‚ Solar System‚ Milky Way Galaxy‚ Local Group‚ Virgo Super cluster‚ Observable Universe) which dates back to the Big Bang. “Human eyes see only a sliver of the light that shines on the cosmos‚ but science gives us the power to see what our senses cannot.” Neil uses this quote often in this episode‚ explaining that the universe is what you can only see with a naked eye. For example‚ He states how a man name Bruno‚ wanted to know everything about Gods creation
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Table of Contents Introduction Have you ever wondered how the world came about? Throughout time people have asked the questions: How did our universe begin? How old is our universe? How did matter come to exist? Obviously these are not simple questions and throughout our brief history on this planet much time and effort has been spent looking for some clue. Yet‚ after all this energy has been expanded‚ much of what we know is still only speculation. An individual personal facts are lead
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was their first target‚ Sandage chose Messier 3‚ located in the northern constellation Canes Venatici‚ for his thesis. They discovered that the cluster ages were at least 3 billion years old‚ which can be used as an indicator for the age of the universe. This indicator was more consistent with geological time estimates for the earth’s age than the 1.8 billion derived through Hubble’s expansion value‚ as there is geological evidence on earth that suggests the earth is older than 1.8 billion years
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of God in his introduction. These are: • God provides the universe with a purpose to work towards (the Teleological Argument). • God provides absolute moral values. Without God‚ we would only have moral relativism. Copleston then gets going with the Cosmological Argument. He uses the first three of Aquinas’ Five Ways‚ but changes them slightly to make the argument better: 1. There are contingent beings in the universe (things that need to look outside themselves to explain why they
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becomes clear that mathematics was the driving force that guided us through the evolution of celestial motion. One of the first to theorize the motion of both terrestrial and celestial bodies was Aristotle around 330BCE. To this philosopher‚ the universe had always been eternally geocentric. On Earth the concept of motion was‚ not only linear but‚ relatable to the material that was in motion. Aristotle theorized that the world was composed of only four basic building blocks; Air‚ Fire‚ Water‚ and
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based on the principle of causality. To grasp a better understand of causality‚ the following claim examined the relation between cause and effect‚ which God is referred to as the necessary being and “the matter‚ laws‚ and nature of everything in the universe” is called contingent beings. The next two premises entailed each other and attempt to posit a necessary being as the reason for the existence of all contingent things: “if something is contingent‚ then its existence is only possible. If the existence
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‘God is responsible for everything that happens in the universe’ Discuss. God is known as the creator of the universe as he can be seen to have created the world through intelligent design. Therefore it can be elucidated that he should be responsible for everything that happens in the universe. Some people would say that he is responsible for everything in the universe such as‚ Christians because they believe he created the world through ‘creatio ex nihilo’‚ this means created the world out
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philosopher William Paley‚ an 18th century English clergymen who concluded that there was an intelligent design of the universe and thus must exist an intelligent designer. Now a commonly used term amongst theologists and philosophers‚ intelligent design refers to the belief that certain features of the universe can best be explained by a higher cause. While an orderly universe created for man-kind may be the more popular and optimistic opinion‚ I see disorder and chaos every where I look. From early
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Life cycle of a star Every star has a life cycle just like a human or a frog except stars do it on a much larger scale. Stars start life as a massive cloud of matter and then get pulled together to create a star. But stars do not last forever most stars last for millions of years but they still end. When a stars life ends it may explode or implode to create a black hole. The reason stars even start life and end life is because of nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is a reaction where matter is forced
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as the fact that we know barely more than what we can see. The above quote explains the microscopic insects we are in the universe. It explains how we cannot merely think that we know everything when in reality we are all very small in the grand magic trick which is the universe. We are only here for a brief lapse of time in which we have to explore and understand the universe for what it is. What we see every day with our eyes is nothing to the mystery that is our world. One can look scientifically
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