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I'd be delighted to offer any advice I have on understanding women. When I have some, I'll let you know.
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I wouldn’t say it’s a “confidence near certainty;” the Big Bang is an idea that we have, what we figure must have happened based on what we know so far of the nature of space. But, this is always changing and developing. We have a baseline, maybe, but we’ve only been scientifically understanding the possibility of a Big Bang for less than 100 years?
If you mean the cosmic microwave background radiation, the theory predicted the existence of background radiation throughout the universe before it was discovered.
With this in mind, I can’t help but wonder what caused it, though people argue that it has always existed. Now we have the problem of why there is anything at all, asked by philosophers such as Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. If the universe always existed due to the nature that time always existed, what prompted everything? Naturally, if there’s nothing, shouldn’t nothing exist indefinitely?
I get for an atheist to jump to the conclusion that there’s a Creator is quite a leap, but I wouldn’t say we have a “confidence near certainty.”
Yes, we can agree that the Earth is round haha.
For Believers who believe in a supernatural power, the creation stories in the Abrahamic religions are either literal or aiming to point to a deeper understanding through their stories. The creation story can be symbolism of some ancient kind isn’t interpreted anymore. The teachings aren’t meant to be taken as science, since science is based on testable explanations and predictions.
We’re thinking Revelation was written sometime around 100 CE.
With everything we know about multiple dimensions, that’d be considered arrogance to believe our soul/spirit doesn’t exist past our body? Part of me sees the arrogance of man going both ways, our arrogance can also block us to new possibilities, “if man was meant to fly, we’d have wings.” I can see this being applied spiritually, too.
The last bit that is hard to verbalize in English, blew my mind haha I couldn’t understand it. You’re saying it’s hard to believe a spirit being as having rules to follow?
As for Issac, he was an artificial lifeform from another planet standing as a witness against their understanding, which seems anything but natural haha and hard to refute. I can see that it happened naturally on Earth. How would it be natural with Issac standing there? How could that not have an influence?
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So watched through most of the Orville eps, and its just better than Discovery, hands down. I'm sorry but Discovery has shot itself with its seriously flawed backstory and it just doesn't have the chemistry as The Orville does. Also Discovery just isn't Star Trek, period. Its too far up its own backside with the pretentiousness of its writers and cast, as well as the general vibe of the show, they should have done it post Nemesis with a back drop of intrigue and subterfuge that would have helped Discovery's "Darker" tone. Just my opinion.
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I like Orville better than Discovery too, mainly because it's much lighter. There's a lot of dark media nowadays, such as Man of Steel, that doesn't need to be so dark but it's thrown in for the hell of it. It's refreshing to get an upbeat, hopeful series such as The Orville makes you think back to the good days where episodes of Star Trek were mostly fun. I've missed that.
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I recently started watching The Orville and have been enjoying it so far. I think the hardest part about the show would be avoiding the Star Trek copyright, as fan shows have come under attack before, so I'm glad they managed to make it work.
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That's not hard, avoiding Trek copyright just means not using the Trek name, characters, locations etc. A sci-fi show set on a ship with a crew, inspired by Trek is completely different and there's nothing they can do about that because they don't own that sci-fi setting. All the fan shows that have come under attack have done so because they use Trek characters or are set in the Trek universe.
It's why Tim Russ's Star Trek Renegades project had to be renamed to just Renegades and have a few costume changes so that it was no longer Trek, however apart from that it remained exactly the same.
Orville won't even have a problem like that when it comes to Trek copyright. It's clearly inspired by Trek and that's fine for the most part.
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http://www.slashfilm.com/the-orville-season-2-2/
Looks like that Season 2 will be more serious and should have at least 14 episodes, so that should be pretty exciting! Season 2 will most likely be what Discovery should have been, but that's for another thread. Personally I'm quite excited for season 2 now!MacFarlane said the first season taught him The Orville could be a genuine sci-fi show and didn’t have to rely on humor if it didn’t serve the story. Season 2, he promised, would be even heavier science fiction.
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I love that picture I remember that scene with Scotty hehe
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Finished up season 1 finally
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Took you long enough, sir...
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