And now the moment you’ve all been waiting for — I give you the first video production for TheSkepticalMagician.com…
Blog post to follow in the next couple of days talking about what went into the making. Enjoy!
Genesis Creation Visualized – Scientifically
June 27, 2012 by The Skeptical Magician
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You can do better than this… your day-for-night makes you look like a Smurf. Too much blue-shift not enough desaturation and try increasing your black levels. Or, re-shoot at night with a soft light on you and the telescope, it’ll still look like night behind without the awkward effect. That’s off topic, but I didn’t watch it with the volume up.
I actually liked the slightly bluer look with less desaturation… it was just too flat looking otherwise. Increasing the black levels made my eyes disappear too much, and you lost a lot of my expression, as well as a lot of the darker foliage in the back. I liked the overall “cooler” appearance that the blues brought in. I don’t have the time to do a night shoot, and with the amount of distance between myself and the camera, I have a feeling I’d lose my eyes like I did with increased black levels.
I actually liked the structure and appearance of the video itself. You are very creative, and I wish I had the same talent. Well done!
You mentioned science proving the earth was not first, but that looking into history we see stars were our origint. Genesis aside, I’d still like to know where the stardust came from. Albert Einstein recognized that if the universe is expanding away from a fixed point, then that means, if reversed, it started at a fixed point. That fixed point had to be some form of matter. And that matter HAD to come from somewhere, since no matter can create itself; no matter evolves from nothing.
Additionally, the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics speaks of matter moving from order to disorder. If we imagine a deck of cards sorted in numerical order and in like suits, and then we shuffle the deck, we will quickly witness disorder. We even sense that the deck will never return to the original sorting and order.
Likewise, I would guess that if a universe began with the explosion of a highly-dense, orderly, super-charged speck of stardust (whatever description we want to give it), that explosion, according to the 2nd law, would not result in a very orderly planet we inhabit. Instead, it should result in more disorder. We see things all around us moving from order to disorder, but evolution suggests a disorderly explosion reverses the law and moves to order instead of more disorder.
Doesn’t make sense. But then, maybe my brain just isn’t highly evolved…
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I still haven’t had a chance to write my blog post unpacking “the making of,” but I’m sure some of your thoughts would fit in well with that post once I’ve got it finished up.
Just as a quick correction… It was actually Edwin Hubble who discovered the Universe was expanding. Einstein had monkeyed with one of his equations to make a static Universe work, and later considered it one of his biggest blunders. Einstein of course eventually recognized the expansion of the Universe, but I’m not sure if you meant that in terms of “discovery” or not, so I just thought I’d clarify real quick.
If you are genuinely curious on how a Universe can come from nothing, I would recommend checking out Lawrence Krauss’s new book, “A Universe From Nothing.” If you don’t feel like reading the book, you can watch the lecture that the book is based off of here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo – It’s a little over an hour, but you could decide whether or not you’d like to read the book after that. He does a much better job of explaining things, and I don’t have that much time to type out just how that happens. It would be a book by the time I was done with it, and he’s already written that, and I’m sure much better than I could.
Your approach of, “Where did the first elements come from?” is one of the favorites of apologists, but even if the answer was “I don’t know,” which is the answer with most of what make the Universe tick, it doesn’t help their cause to any great extent. I watch a fair amount of debates, and one of the things you’ll often notice is that apologists will often argue for the existence of a creator, and not that Yahweh IS that creator (i.e. Intelligent Designer). The reason for this, as I point out in my video, is that the Bible has it all wrong when it comes to origins. It’s a bit of a psychological trick the apologists play – if they can convince people there is a designer, they will just automatically assume it’s the God of the Bible, even though the evidence is clearly against it. So even if I agreed with you that there has to be a creator (which I obviously don’t), there is no way that creator is Yahweh, and there is a long way to go before we could say that creator is a god, let alone one god, etc.
As far as the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is concerned, entropy allows for order in one part of a isolated system, while greater disorder occurs in another part of the system. Forgetting that life isn’t a part of an isolated system for a moment, your body may seem like a miracle of order that would go against the 2nd LOT, but try imagining all of the crap you’ve pooped out since you were a baby in a huge pile next to you. The order of your body only came about because of a “shit load” of disorder.
Looking at the universe from that one focal point you were talking about, imagine if you had a big bag of marbles in one spot, and then you dumped them out on a gym floor…. There would be a great amount of disorder, but you would also have some of them impacting, grouping together, etc. giving rise to “an ordered” group of 2, or three, or more. So while we have clumps of order in the universe, as a whole, it is spreading apart in a great amount of disorder, and will eventually go dark and cold.
With that deck of cards you were talking about, if you shuffled it an infinite amount of times, you would have it return to the initial order, time, and time, and time again. So while your sense may be that the deck would never return, our senses fool us, and that’s why we have science – to help us overcome the weakness of our senses.
I would recommend going to a site like http://www.talkorigins.org. Just about any argument apologists put forward is answered there, and you’ll notice that apologists will still bring out the same arguments time and again, even though they’ve been shown to be wrong.
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