Re: Vatican and science

  Mario Petrinovic wrote:

         Once, in a discussion, some Catholic said to me that I will never be happy because I will not feel the love from God, or something.

That sounds like someone from every religion.

I told her that, from my experience, most radical Catholic believers are handicapped people looking for salvation, on which she shut up.

Must've been your non-verbal queues -- volume, tone, facial expression
or even body language, because that's not exactly a show-stopper of a
response.
They're not saying anything that is not implied by (if not expressly
stated) by others, going back decades earlier.
It's also just redefining the term "Beginning" and, if you think about
it, redefining "Nothing."
But I've often pointed this out in the past:  Time and space are
products or features of our universe. Both only exist within the
universe.
Using our universe to decipher it's origins is a bit like using a
CooCoo Clock to compose the image of the clock maker... You can no
more "See God" in the universe than glimpse the clock maker.
This thought experiment is even more interesting if you remove "You"
and make it an alien who knows nothing about our species or culture.
Like if one day a CooCoo Clock just appeared out of nowhere, ripped
through a wormhole in space, maybe. What could he learn about the
clock maker -- his species, his likeness -- from examining this
clock?
This would be infinitely easier than ascertaining the origins of
SpaceTime from looking at SpaceTime...
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