Evolutionary superiority

I'm getting pig sick of your constant harping on about your "tiny little mind".If you are going to presage everything you write with: or the like then there is no point in debating with you.Debate is supposed to be an exchange in ideas. Your point seems to be to feed the enormous chip on you shoulder.Goodbye Hill Billy, your method of debate claimss another sad victim.

the possibility that space-time can indeed bend and curve and give rise to what we call 'expansion'.

No, space-time is a static entity.

If we imagine time as along the cone, with T=0 at the apex, then the circular cross-sections of the cone can be said to expand as we move through time, away from the apex.

To ask 'did the cone come from the apex?' is rather bizarre.
To ask 'so where did the apex come from?' is equally bizarre.
But it is perfectly valid to ask 'why is there a cone here?

Yes, this is generally true. If you are close to the Earth, it will appear to take 24 hours to rotate. This is longest it will ever appear to rotate. But it can rotate in a much shorter time! All you have to do is go for a quick journey at close to the speed of light and come back, and you will see the Earth has made a complete revolution in less time than 24 hrs. How much less depends on the speeds you experienced on your journey. You can make the time arbitrarily small, assuming you can survive the accelearions and decelerations required to give you that speed.

Not quite - if you have point A on the cone at T=4, and event B at T=6, then the maximum time between events A and B is 2, but the actual time you will experience travelling from A to B will depend upon your chosen path across the cone from A to B. The actual curviness of the space-time along your path as you travel between A and B will affect the particular time you measure between A and B.

I will admit those who hold a Naturalistic world view free of religious belief do tend to think of themselves as intellectually superior. Cocky, Arrogant, Condescending? At times, yes, some can come across this way.

an Inquisition or a Crusade to forcibly put down those who hold differing world views.

Most religions have at their core a belief that the adherents are special and unique and they tend to elevate themselves above others.

History has shown such a mind set can lead to very bad things.

On a personal level, most Christians I know are decent people

At times, however, they can come across with a superiority complex and can be very exclusive.

My Cousin's Baptist Church has an annual ski outing to Vermont and for the past 4 years I have assisted the church with Instruction. I am an avid skier and former instructor and was offered free lodging and lift tickets
for the 4 day trip in exchange for my service. My time is scarce and is devoted mostly to school, so I was really looking forward to the trip over the President's day holiday. The week before, I was told that my services would no longer be needed. When I asked why, I was gently told that some of the parents of the kids that were attending objected to my presence, as I was not a Christian and member of the church. These people all knew me as trustworthy and responsible.Not only did this make me feel badly, it also changed my personal views on some things. I was offering a service to the group to enhance their enjoyment of a sport; I wasn't there to discuss religion. Perhaps they got tired of their attempts at converting me and that's why I was asked to come along to begin with. Who knows.

I don't think hes was complaining about the loss of the ski tickets as the prejudicial attitude of "some of the parents."

With this sentence you blow your entire arguement out of the water: well done.

So what you really should have written as your title for this rip roaring thread was: some people feel superior.

PEOPLE FEEL SUPERIOR.

My point is that value that is based on your level of education promotes injustice