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Rrhain
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Message 115 of 141 (479047)
08-23-2008 9:19 PM
Reply to: Message 113 by Al Barrs
08-23-2008 8:52 PM


Al Barrs writes:
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Don't forget that it was mortal human being who authored Genesis and put it into a very condensed format to fit it into the Bible.
Why condense it? Humans aren't idiots. We can understand complex things. Complex things require complex explanations. If it becomes a sound bite, then it isn't really explaining anything.
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What is time when you own it? twelve billion years is a tiny dot in comparison to outer space time.
So? We've only been seriously able to look at deep cosmology for about 100 years and look how far we've come. Imagine how much further we could have been if we had been able to start thousands of years ago. Why on earth hide things and dumb down those things you do present?
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Answer this, is there an end to outer space?
Yes.
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Can it go on forever?
Define "forever." The universe if finite but unbounded.
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If 'yes' what does it go into?
It goes into nothing. You need to abandon your "common sense" notions of how space-time works. But the books you'll use to understand cosmology are longer than the Bible.
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If it does end, what is holding it up?
Nothing. Again, you need to stop thinking of the universe as something you've run into on a day-to-day basis. It doesn't work that way. The universe is finite but unbounded. It expands into nothing and is held up by nothing.
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Is our solar system just an atom within God?
The solar system does not compare to an atom.

Rrhain

Thank you for your submission to Science. Your paper was reviewed by a jury of seventh graders so that they could look for balance and to allow them to make up their own minds. We are sorry to say that they found your paper "bogus," specifically describing the section on the laboratory work "boring." We regret that we will be unable to publish your work at this time.

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