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Author Topic:   Is everything made of the same material?
New Cat's Eye
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Message 28 of 45 (409808)
07-11-2007 11:57 AM
Reply to: Message 23 by IamJoseph
07-11-2007 6:03 AM


However, there must also be another factor involved, because the dust of earth's matter does not result in life by itself, even given eons of light years. We have similar conditions on the moon.
Ummm... the moon doesn't have an atmosphere. That's quite a difference!
I see it as an external triggering factor being required to interact with earthly material to activate life - else nothing happens.
Yeah, like a lightning bolt, or some radiation.
The premise life begins in and from inanimate matter of and by itself is unsustained, and never seen here or in other planets.
But they have created the building blocks of life from inanimate matter. Its not as far of a leap as you make it out to be for life to arrise naturally.

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New Cat's Eye
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Message 41 of 45 (409942)
07-12-2007 11:07 AM
Reply to: Message 38 by IamJoseph
07-12-2007 4:30 AM


The dif is that unlike light years, 'many miles' is not a quotient of years.
It doesn't matter what it is a quoteient of. I can ride a bicycle a certain distance in a week. We can call that distance bike-weeks.
Would it make sense to talk about my age in bike-weeks?
No, because it is a measure of distance not time.
Light-years in reference to time is not different than just "years", or snail-years (the distance a snail can travel in a year).
Your phase would mean the same thing if you put "eons of snail-years". Why even put light-years in there if you could have just said "years"?
How does including the distance that light can travel in that time help your point in any way? Your still just talking about the time portion of the phrase, and not talking anything about the distance that it is describing. Why is that?
I think its because you're trying to sound smarter than you actually are.

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