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To: Thatcherite

14 billion years old seems pretty old to me. Can living things live that long?


1,798 posted on 02/17/2006 8:43:44 AM PST by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: xzins
14 billion years old seems pretty old to me. Can living things live that long?

I doubt that the word "living" could be of serious application to a being with the power to create the universe. Nor could we seriously hope to comprehend the motivations of such an entity, which is one reason why I find most religions that deal with a "personal God" that behaves just like a rather powerful person deeply unconvincing. Such a being would of necessity lie outside physical time.

1,801 posted on 02/17/2006 8:49:00 AM PST by Thatcherite (More abrasive blackguard than SeaLion or ModernMan)
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