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Oh how wonderful it must be to be a scientist nowadays. Not like the days of yore when Galileo was around and revolutionary ideas got you killed. Oh no. Nowadays being a scientist is cushy, civil and reverent. Yes, you can come up with any postulate or theory your little heart can dream of and so long as it is something that is based mostly in theory, then you can pretty much push your standpoint for your own agenda. That is how I view the scientists of today. Especially geologists (with respect to dating the earth), physicists and theoretical mathematicians. I read an article in a published science journal about a physicist who thinks he has figured out through complex mathematics that while particles in quantum mechanics seem to behave unpredictably, if we could track the underlying states, we can predict the behaviour of particles. In essence this article was stating that in being able to predict the behaviour of quantum particles shows that we have no free will. Now, I don't know how a physicist can make a leap from particle behavior to a persons choice between wearing the red or blue sweater today, but if all the math and lab time keeps him busy, then hey, stay busy but keep your theory out of the realm of my decisions.

Here's my theory: Scientists, and man in general, for some inane reason likes to view the world and the universe in neat, predictable boxes which can be accessed anytime one questions the world around them. I guess they fail to see that the universe is chaotic, as WELL as following some BASIC laws, but the chaos is what ultimately makes things happen. No one can reliably predict anything - not the weather, not the football game, what someone will say, etc. It bothers me they spend time and money trying to find ways to force this agenda of categorizing the universe down our throats. Funny how we all are taught in school that there is always an exception to every rule, but these brilliant men and women fail to apply that rule to physics.

I also do not believe in the big bang theory. It just doesn't sit right with me. They say that the universe started out as a little point and was all gaseous and super compressed and then heated up and exploded and thus became the universe. Really? So when the universe was a little point, an had room to explode, that means there was already space around that compressed point in order for the gaseous ball to explode. That would constitute as the universe already, wouldn't it? It may not have looked like the place it is now, but there was still enough space for this hot gaseous ball to expand. And there had to be something there in the beginning to have created the gasses to be the ball. That means there was something already there to create the gasses. You see, I don't think that scientists can conceive of something that does NOT have a beginning or end. I believe the universe IS. That's it. It IS. It has always been. It always will be. I think scientists need to understand the fact that perhaps on some level, we will never fully understand the universe because humans don't really have the capacity to do so. Or at least they have to stop viewing the universe with their own ideas and start looking at it as a newborn child would, learning as you go along and accepting things as they are, not the way you want them to be.