The mom part, plus the fact that you've talked about your kids before. I only said it because grey_whiskers referred to you as "he," so it was an aside to him (I assume g_w is a him).
No, I am not trying to dismiss science and I do not labels those who practice said branches of science as ‘anti-God” or “atheist” simply on the basis of them being scientists.
Well, that's not what I said. But you do so label practitioners of science who come to conclusions (based on the evidence) that you reject, despite hearing many of them testify to their belief in God.
Do you have any idea what the *met* part of metmom stands for? I've made no secret about it.
Yes, I do. I believe we've had conversations before about the fact that you don't (as far as I know) believe that God has a direct hand in the formation of every tornado and hurricane (some people think He does, at least for some of them) but insist He must have had a direct hand in the formation of every species.
My contention is that we have no hard scientific evidence that things have remained unchanged either. It is merely an assumption made by scientists. One of convenience that allows them to postulate the theories they purport. For their theories to be taken seriously, they HAVE to insist that everything has remained unchanged since the inception of the universe.
A lot of theories rely on that assumption, not just the ToE. For example, theories about the formation of the solar system kind of depend on gravity having worked the same way for a long, long time. As I said, I don't see where the "things could have been different" argument gets us, practically speaking. Or, as you put it, "speculating on that is simply a mental exercise that accomplishes nothing so is not worth wasting time over, IMO."
BTW, of my three kids, there are two physicists and one engineer, all of whom have attended large, secular universities (whose names you would recognize) with an exceptional physics program (or engineering for the engineer) and have done very well in their classes.
Sincere congratulations. You must be proud.
I beg your pardon, but I've just surfed through this thread and a cursory-to-middling check did not show any times on this thread where *I* referred to metmom as a "he".
Must've been Maxwell's Grammarian. Or Morton's.
For the nonce, I am very much a *he*.
Cheers!
Thank you.
Big Bang Theory is almost reality TV in our home.
Geek Central.....
Needless to say, we have some interesting dinnertime conversations when the kids are home from college.