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To: P-Marlowe; hosepipe; blue-duncan; betty boop; xzins
Thank you so much for your posts and this sidebar!

We're all Christians on this ping, so I'm sure none of us would suggest that anything could be beyond God's power though there may be things excluded by His will.

Concerning the Gosse Omphalos hypothesis, if anyone is interested:

Gosse Ompahlos hypothesis (Wikipedia)

The omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book by Philip Henry Gosse in which he argued that in order for the world to be "functional", God must have created the Earth with mountains, canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels (omphalos is Greek for "navel"), and that therefore no evidence we can see of the presumed age of the earth and universe can be taken as reliable.


655 posted on 11/17/2005 9:29:52 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
Considered the Gosse Omphalos hypothesis as an interesting aside.. Thanks.. Was new to me.. and see how I mght seem to buy into some of that.. Actually a variation of it or part of it might be relevant to me.. I don't care actually if the earth is 15 minutes old or 15 billion years old as an issue.. My attitude is what ever it is, it is..(age of the earth)

I'm concerned more with the future.. but thank you for an interesting insight.. I tend to think the Universe begins at mankind is arrogant.. or even the earth.. Biblical mankind seems to not care about this planet before the Garden of Eden.. like "the Painter" painted only one painting "the Earth with the Universe as Landscape".. can't prove that there were more "paintings", but then we can't prove the Garden of Eden either... Jesus on the otherhand proves that earth is something special.. else why the drama.. I don't see an intelligent God as a drama Queen King..

Who knows maybe earth is a re-worked painting because of some de-facing of some sort..(holding to the metaphor).. We may never know, or care, in the future.. its the future that counts.. thats where my heart is.. Marana tha..

657 posted on 11/17/2005 10:18:14 PM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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