Beginning of the Universe ?

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kalyanamithra said:
Pinwath mithura,

Think I should add what Buddhism mentions about this...

Beginning of the universe is not a concern of Buddhism - because it's cyclic process... It get created, expands (sanwatta kalpa); collapses (vivatta kalpa); gets destroyed... get created again... (This is mentioned as background information in Agganna Sutta of Digha Nikaya)

The problem is samsaraic existence of beings does not end at the point of disctruction... The beings spend the period in Abhassara brahma loka (they are beings of light...) and comes back to the worlds (when they are formed; and beings having forms can live in these worlds)...

That's why samsaraic existence is so perilous... It does not end automatically... That's why Buddhists try to end it by following the Noble Eightfold Path...

Theruwan saranai!

Yes very true ..................... but how doest the so called mind created ?
 

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    Y2K said:
    Yes very true ..................... but how doest the so called mind created ?

    Pinwath mithura,

    (According to Buddhism) It gets created because the causes needed for it have come together...
    Our problem now is not how it's created... how to finish it...
    That's what Buddhism focuses on...

    Theruwan saranai!
     

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    If I say Computer (The Man made marvel) created by man you all accept it ... but if i say no Computer is created by the nature or so called cyclical process you may laugh at me ........... but in this case we know that man made this machine

    At the point of creation we were not here ........... right ................ but if you carefully exam the magical process of this world we can think that some sort of intelligent person might behind it
     

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    kalyanamithra said:
    Pinwath mithura,

    (According to Buddhism) It gets created because the causes needed for it have come together...
    Our problem now is not how it's created... how to finish it...
    That's what Buddhism focuses on...

    Theruwan saranai!


    Machan I love Buddhism (I am Catholic) I need to know abt it well thank you for your explanation the way you react is very good .... keep on posting
     

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    Y2K said:
    If I say Computer (The Man made marvel) created by man you all accept it ... but if i say no Computer is created by the nature or so called cyclical process you may laugh at me ........... but in this case we know that man made this machine

    At the point of creation we were not here ........... right ................ but if you carefully exam the magical process of this world we can think that some sort of intelligent person might behind it

    Dear friends, please do not treat this as an attempt to look down upon other religions... I do not want to compare or contrast religions...
    But I have to if I am going to answer this question...

    Dear Y2K,

    Ok, let's extend your argument...
    what created that intelligent person?

    Theruwan saranai!
     

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    Y2K said:
    If I say Computer (The Man made marvel) created by man you all accept it ... but if i say no Computer is created by the nature or so called cyclical process you may laugh at me ........... but in this case we know that man made this machine

    At the point of creation we were not here ........... right ................ but if you carefully exam the magical process of this world we can think that some sort of intelligent person might behind it

    humans are indeed can consider as very advanced computer........
    i don't know how old are u and what sort of education background you have.......
    so i will tell you what i feel.......

    I have bio science and computer science background....thats why i feel this way....

    the information needed to crate life is all stored in DNA......
    if i might call it a computer program.....

    you have probably have heard that by genetic manipulation we can change our appearance, or immunity for some decease. their was scientist experiment with genetically manipulated mice witch grown a human ear in mousse.
    mouse-ear.jpg


    that is a good example that human body is like a out come of a very advanced computer program.......

    the information stored in DNA is the main source of who we are.......
    it's nnot just humans. basically all life forms.....
     

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    Machan I love Buddhism (I am Catholic) I need to know abt it well thank you for your explanation the way you react is very good .... keep on posting

    i'm catholic too my friend......
    i've been in contact with kalyanamithra for while and....it's well worth it.......
    i learned so much from him.......:) :) :) :) :) :)

    kalyanamithra...thank you very much for your support....
    it's much appreciated.....
     

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    nj542 said:
    humans are indeed can consider as very advanced computer........
    i don't know how old are u and what sort of education background you have.......
    so i will tell you what i feel.......

    I have bio science and computer science background....thats why i feel this way....

    the information needed to crate life is all stored in DNA......
    if i might call it a computer program.....

    you have probably have heard that by genetic manipulation we can change our appearance, or immunity for some decease. their was scientist experiment with genetically manipulated mice witch grown a human ear in mousse.
    mouse-ear.jpg


    that is a good example that human body is like a out come of a very advanced computer program.......

    the information stored in DNA is the main source of who we are.......
    it's nnot just humans. basically all life forms.....

    Where did that information come ?
     

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    Was There Ever Nothing?

    A thought journey on the beginning of time, the
    origin of the universe & the question of intelligent design...

    the beginning of time origin of the universe


    Have you ever thought about the beginning? What is that, you say? You know -- whatever it was that showed up first. Or whatever it was that was here first, at the earliest moment in time. Have you ever strained your brain to think about that?

    Wait a minute, you say, isn't it possible that in the beginning there was nothing? Isn't it possible that kazillions of years ago, there wasn't anything at all? That's certainly a theory to consider. So let's consider it -- but first by way of analogy.

    Let's say you have a large room. It's fully enclosed and is about the size of a football field. The room is locked, permanently, and has no doors or windows, and no holes in its walls.

    Inside the room there is...nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not a particle of anything. No air at all. No dust at all. No light at all. It's a sealed room that's pitch black inside. Then what happens?

    Well, let's say your goal is to get something -- anything at all -- into the room. But the rules are: you can't use anything from outside the room to do that. So what do you do?

    the beginning of time

    Well, you think, what if I try to create a spark inside the room? Then the room would have light in it, even for just a moment. That would qualify as something. Yes, but you are outside the room. So that's not allowed.

    But, you say, what if I could teleport something into the room, like in Star Trek? Again, that's not allowable, because you'd be using things from outside the room.

    Here again is the dilemma: you have to get something inside the room using only what's in the room. And, in this case, what's in the room is nothing.

    Well, you say, maybe a tiny particle of something will just show up inside the room if given enough time.

    There's three problems with this theory. First, time by itself doesn't do anything. Things happen over time, but it's not time that makes them happen. For example, if you wait 15 minutes for cookies to bake, it's not the 15 minutes that bakes them, it's the heat in the oven. If you set them on the counter for 15 minutes, they're not going to bake.

    In our analogy, we've got a fully enclosed room with absolutely nothing in it. Waiting 15 minutes will not, in and of itself, change the situation. Well, you say, what if we wait eons? An eon is merely a bunch of 15-minute segments all pressed together. If you waited an eon with your cookies on the counter, would the eon bake them?

    the beginning of time

    The second problem is this: why would anything just "show up" in the empty room? It would need a reason why it came to be. But there is nothing inside the room at all. So what's to stop that from remaining the case? There would be nothing inside the room to cause something to show up (and yet the reason must come from inside the room).

    Well, you say, what about a tiny particle of something? Wouldn't that have a greater chance of materializing in the room than something larger like, for example, a football?

    That brings up the third problem: size. Like time, size is an abstract. It's relative. Let's say you have three baseballs, all ranging in size. One is ten feet wide, one is five feet wide, one is normal size. Which one is more likely to materialize in the room?

    The normal-size baseball? No! It would be the same likelihood for all three. The size wouldn't matter. It's not the issue. The issue is whether or not any baseball of any size could just "show up" in our sealed, empty room.

    If you don't think the smallest baseball could just show up in the room, no matter how much time passed, then you must conclude the same thing even for an atom. Size is not an issue. The likelihood of a small particle materializing without cause is no different than a refrigerator materializing without cause!

    the beginning of time

    Now let's stretch our analogy further, literally. Let's take our large, pitch-black room and remove its walls. And let's extend the room so that it goes on infinitely in all directions. Now there is nothing outside the room, because the room is all there is. Period.

    This black infinite room has no light, no dust, no particles of any kind, no air, no elements, no molecules. It's absolute nothingness. In fact, we can call it Absolutely Nothing.

    So here's the question: if originally -- bazillions of years ago -- there was Absolutely Nothing, wouldn't there be Absolutely Nothing now?

    Yes. For something -- no matter how small -- cannot come from Absolutely Nothing. We would still have Absolutely Nothing.

    the beginning of time

    What does that tell us? That Absolutely Nothing never existed. Why? Because, if Absolutely Nothing ever existed, there would still be Absolutely Nothing!

    If Absolutely Nothing ever existed, there would not be anything outside it to cause the existence of anything.

    Again, if Absolutely Nothing ever existed, there would still be Absolutely Nothing.

    However, something exists. Actually, many things exist. You, for example, are something that exists, a very important something. Therefore, you are proof that Absolutely Nothing never existed.

    Now, if Absolutely Nothing never existed, that means there was always a time when there was at least Something in existence. What was it?

    Was it one thing or many things? Was it an atom? A particle? A molecule? A football? A mutant baseball? A refrigerator? Some cookies?
     

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