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PaulK
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Message 6 of 8 (55852)
09-16-2003 6:49 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by jadeshadow
09-16-2003 6:16 PM


Well that was weird.
Apparenntly if you jsut assume that a literalistic Genesis is the last word on the origins of the uiverse, the Earth and the various forms of life to be found on the planet that's OK. You can go around as creationists do attacking people for "unreasonably" refusing to accept that you unsupported opinion is the absolute truth.
If you actually look into the scientific explanations which represents many decades of work by many many people that's wrong because you might be "sucked into feeling high and mighty".
And yes, the poster does inded have the attitude I attribute to creationists above - since he labels evolution (or rather cosmology) a lie without knowing much about it.
SO lets start by pointing out that a point of infinite density is what you get IF you run General Relativity all the way back to the very start of the Big Bang. Unfortunately we already know that GR does not hold at very high densities, so that extrapolation is not valid. Even more unfortunately we do not know exactly how to fix GR so that it does work. However moving to a philosophical level we are always going to have to assume something as a given. The question is, why should it be a God, lt alone some specific God.

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