These points merit two responses. A major theme of the Odyssey is Odysseus being wracked with guilt for having the idea which caused Troy to be burned with massive slaughter.
Oops - it isn’t. No one seemed to care too much about torching cities back then. Including God’s people - remember Jericho?
None of this was justified by rebellion against God - because the Hebrews were not at all upset about people worshiping other Gods. Just don’t defect.
In any case, it is not clear there was a law. Though Moses supposedly wrote the Torah, it does not get mentioned until much later until it gets conveniently “found”. Is it mentioned in Judges? In Joshua? In the stories of David and Solomon? Nope. The Ark is, but that is quite different. It is pretty clear that the Law didn’t even exist then.
The writers of the Bible wrote beautiful stuff, but logic was not one of their strong points.
‘Reasonably close’, how? Cosmic microwave background radiation maps show an inhomogenous universe, with giant voids and clusters of galaxies. This runs completely counter to the predictions of the big bang model (homogenous universe).
Rebelling against God does justify destruction, there is no way around that. The tablets are recorded in Exodus, Numbers, all throughout the Torah and afterwards. Joshua re-recorded the laws as well.
I see how you mentioned logic but avoided my question about when you think logic was established. Before humans or not?
Noooo…the “Law of Non-Contradiction” was not understood and named until humans understood and named it. Things will work they way they will work, god or no god, and when we find out how something works sometimes we put a name to that understanding.
Your own link says that the temperature fluctuations between hemispheres were more extreme than had been predicted. Using logic, we can work backward and understand that this means temperature fluctuations were predicted.
You need to learn to understand what you are reading before your post your errors for everyone to see.
You have not provided an example of a prediction of a homogeneous universe; you linked to a map that shows that it is not homogeneous. Since few of us have ever heard of anyone predicting a homogeneous universe, Czarcasm asked you for an example of a claim for a homogeneous universe.
Of course the universe is not homogeneous. I know of no one who believes that it is.
So. Show us a scientific prediction that the universe is homogeneous.
:dubious: “God is evil/wrong/nonexistent, therefore it is just to rebel against him.”
There, I “got around that” quite easily. It’s not “written in our hearts” that rebelling against your god is wrong; only a minority of humanity has ever even believed in him.
However, reef shark isn’t talking about the kind of homogeneity that scientists are. The homogeneity that inflation explains is “why don’t we see spacetime defects like cosmic strings and domain walls, or antimatter galaxies, or half the mass of the universe as a black hole, or other major alterations in the nature of spacetime and matter?” Those voids and superclusters are local variations; but taken as a whole the observable universe is homogeneous, it looks like the same kind of universe everywhere we look.
And in fact those voids and clusters appear to have developed from tiny variations in the early universe, not large ones; yes, there may be larger variations than predicted but that’s only “larger” in relative terms, not large in absolute terms. The homogeneity that has to be explained is why there aren’t large differences; an inflationary Big Bang does that.
That was the original prediction of the big bang model. It has since been altered to account for additional scientific discoveries (inflationary theory).
Nowhere; it always existed, as far as it can be said to exist at all. Before you can make claims about where logic came from you need to demonstrate that it’s possible for it to have not existed.
'Asymmetry and cold spot
Another is an asymmetry in the average temperatures on opposite hemispheres of the sky. This runs counter to the prediction made by the standard model that the Universe should be broadly similar in any direction we look.
Furthermore, a cold spot extends over a patch of sky that is much larger than expected.
The asymmetry and the cold spot had already been hinted at with Planck’s predecessor, NASA’s WMAP mission, but were largely ignored because of lingering doubts about their cosmic origin.
“The fact that Planck has made such a significant detection of these anomalies erases any doubts about their reality; it can no longer be said that they are artefacts of the measurements. They are real and we have to look for a credible explanation,” says Paolo Natoli of the University of Ferrara, Italy.
“Imagine investigating the foundations of a house and finding that parts of them are weak. You might not know whether the weaknesses will eventually topple the house, but you’d probably start looking for ways to reinforce it pretty quickly all the same,” adds François Bouchet of the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris.
One way to explain the anomalies is to propose that the Universe is in fact not the same in all directions on a larger scale than we can observe. In this scenario, the light rays from the CMB may have taken a more complicated route through the Universe than previously understood, resulting in some of the unusual patterns observed today.
“Our ultimate goal would be to construct a new model that predicts the anomalies and links them together. But these are early days; so far, we don’t know whether this is possible and what type of new physics might be needed. And that’s exciting,” says Professor Efstathiou.’