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Author Topic:   Evolution is False; now what?
jar
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Message 31 of 41 (138437)
08-31-2004 11:37 AM
Reply to: Message 30 by DBlevins
08-31-2004 11:26 AM


Re: We've been there before
Any time the supernatural is invoked, it is most definitly NOT science.
True, but...
In many things we reach the point where we simply do not know. One such example is the issue of what caused a singularity that must have existed for some long period to change state?
If the evidence had shown that the universe as we know it were reciprocating, expanding for awhile and then collapsing only to explode again in a never ending cycle, it would have been a blow to Creationism.
On the other hand, what appears to be the case based on the evidence so far, that there was a singularity, that the singularity existed as a singularity, and that at some point in time changed state into the expanding universe we see today, then there is the ligitamate question, "what changed"?
There are several options, we can say we don't know, or we can say God Done It. Neither is really objectionable nor will either affect any of the theories beyond that incident.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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jar
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Message 38 of 41 (138771)
09-01-2004 11:01 AM
Reply to: Message 36 by nator
09-01-2004 10:40 AM


Re: We've been there before
Actually, the question I asked doesn't deal with before the singularity, which is another issue. Rather all I was looking at is the trigger that changed the state of the singularity.
But my underlying point is that so far, every time we seem to have reached a beginning point, an ultimate simplicity, we have found that there is some additional system beneath that. And there, as we get closer and closer to root causes, to root objects, we find a beauty, logic and reason.
So if something came along and proved the TOE false, I have no doubt that we would find another theory that worked even better. Yet even that new, improved version would likely not negate the possiblility or logic of some divine intervention.
What it would not do is support the Creation Myth as contained in Genesis. Those stories have already been falsified.

Aslan is not a Tame Lion

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