Some Basic Math Reveals Some Indisputable Truths
May 12, 2023 9:15:36 GMT -5
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Post by notbob on May 12, 2023 9:15:36 GMT -5
I recently discovered, the number of atoms that make up an average sized human is astronomical. Here's the number: 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. It's seven with 27 zeros after it. If each atom had only a nucleus with one electron and one proton, that would triple the number of "things," but atoms have multiple electrons and protons depending on their make-up. Taking it even smaller, particles make up atoms, and even smaller particles make up larger particles and perhaps, strings make up particles. Who knows what makes up strings, but that initial number of atoms is compounded multiple times, into the hundreds, thousands, and maybe even millions of "things" that make up tiny atoms. Is there a limit to how small things can be? I'm not sure anyone knows...yet.
So, that's the make-up of one average sized human. There are roughly 8,000,000,000,000 (eight billion) humans on Earth. So, that's eight billion times (the number 7 with 27 zeros). Now, let's add in all atoms that make up animals, from one-celled animals to whales including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, etc. In addition, there are all the atoms that make up plants, water, land, dust and gasses. All of a sudden, that seven with 27 zeros (the number of atoms in one human) becomes a miniscule number.
Earth is part of a tiny solar system of planets, debris, dust and gasses orbiting around a tiny star (the Sun). We don't know how many stars there are in the Milky Way, but it's estimated to be between 100 billion and 400 billion. Other things we don't know are how many planets are orbiting around those stars. Scientists believe it's very unlikely that there isn't life on some of those planets. Now, that number of seven with 27 zeros after it becomes unfathomably small. The largest galaxy we know of has over 100 trillion stars.
Estimates become even more varied as we go larger. Scientists believe there are between 100 billion and two trillion galaxies in the Universe, and no one can even speculate whether or not there are multiple universes. So, when it comes to how many atoms make up the Universe, the number is inconceivable.
I am of the opinion that the notion that all this was "created" by a single entity is not just absurd, it's insanity, but most people who are "believers" never ask these deeper questions. Even if they did ask, virtually all of them wouldn't consider any possibilities beyond "God did it."
There is far more evidence that the Universe in one form or another has always been here than there is evidence that it was "created."
Atheists don't claim to have answers to, "Where did all this come from?" "Believers" claim they know the answers. "God did it," and that's that, but when asked for any kind of proof, they fall short. They offer nothing but a book written in times when scientific exploration was in relative infancy. In addition, the "book" or "books," if you want to include all religions, were written by humans who made numerous mistakes in their writings and calculations.
For people who blindly accept an unsubstantiated claim, critical thinking flies out the window, which seems pretty strange considering their belief that God gave us brains for the purpose of learning, questioning, and trying to make sense out of things. They seem to believe the brain must not question God.
So, that's the make-up of one average sized human. There are roughly 8,000,000,000,000 (eight billion) humans on Earth. So, that's eight billion times (the number 7 with 27 zeros). Now, let's add in all atoms that make up animals, from one-celled animals to whales including mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, etc. In addition, there are all the atoms that make up plants, water, land, dust and gasses. All of a sudden, that seven with 27 zeros (the number of atoms in one human) becomes a miniscule number.
Earth is part of a tiny solar system of planets, debris, dust and gasses orbiting around a tiny star (the Sun). We don't know how many stars there are in the Milky Way, but it's estimated to be between 100 billion and 400 billion. Other things we don't know are how many planets are orbiting around those stars. Scientists believe it's very unlikely that there isn't life on some of those planets. Now, that number of seven with 27 zeros after it becomes unfathomably small. The largest galaxy we know of has over 100 trillion stars.
Estimates become even more varied as we go larger. Scientists believe there are between 100 billion and two trillion galaxies in the Universe, and no one can even speculate whether or not there are multiple universes. So, when it comes to how many atoms make up the Universe, the number is inconceivable.
I am of the opinion that the notion that all this was "created" by a single entity is not just absurd, it's insanity, but most people who are "believers" never ask these deeper questions. Even if they did ask, virtually all of them wouldn't consider any possibilities beyond "God did it."
There is far more evidence that the Universe in one form or another has always been here than there is evidence that it was "created."
Atheists don't claim to have answers to, "Where did all this come from?" "Believers" claim they know the answers. "God did it," and that's that, but when asked for any kind of proof, they fall short. They offer nothing but a book written in times when scientific exploration was in relative infancy. In addition, the "book" or "books," if you want to include all religions, were written by humans who made numerous mistakes in their writings and calculations.
For people who blindly accept an unsubstantiated claim, critical thinking flies out the window, which seems pretty strange considering their belief that God gave us brains for the purpose of learning, questioning, and trying to make sense out of things. They seem to believe the brain must not question God.
