bob123
Junior Member (Idle past 4643 days) Posts: 1 Joined: 07-12-2011
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Message 373 of 396 (623720)
07-12-2011 9:24 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by RAZD 08-28-2004 4:38 PM
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What happened before that?
It is unimaginable to me how not one but thousands of well educated academics can entire lifetimes debating and researching how things have come to be. I’m talking about the evolution vs. creationism vs. intelligent design vs. whatever conundrum. It’s really a simple topic and not worthy of the time and energy expended on it. I can say with certainty that I have never researched this topic none and never will because there is nothing to research. It’s all conjecture and always will be. I know with 100% certainty that the answer not attainable because of one simple unarguable truth: Since all beginnings have a beginning, there is no true beginning to anything. Since there is no true beginning, you can never ascertain the essence or how of anything. You can only observe what is observable and the paradox created by the what happened before that? question makes the how question unsolvable - actually barely even a valid question. Simply put, there are unknown variables that can never be proven or otherwise derived. So, whether you believe in intelligent design, randomness or directed evolution, it’s irrelevant because any 6 year old can always legitimately ask: What happened before that?
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