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To: SubMareener
I am pretty sure that Kurt Godel proved that any self-referencing logical system (including scientific theories about the universe) is either incomplete or inaccurate. In other words, one can't use words, or any other system of symbols to describe the unknowable parts.

Bingo!

My problem with the intelligent design crowd is that they are not giving God enough credit. They think that just because they can't understand how He did it, He couldn't have done it the way he says He did in the first few verses of Genisis. IMO God described the process of creation in a way suitable for the audience at the time, a early agricurtural society. If God described quantum mechaics to those folks it would have been gibberish to them. God gives us the previlege of learning about and gaining an understanding of His creation. God bringing the universe into existanence and setting the rules to allow it to unfold this way is very elegant, as opposed to bludegoning the world into existanence in 8 days.

I'm guessing that time is not a corcern for God 8 days, 15 billion years, NBD to God.

30 posted on 11/13/2005 8:00:17 AM PST by Leto
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To: Leto
Take a look at Stan Tenen's web site http://www.meru.org/. His theory is that God was even smarter than that. He embedded the answer to the question of the universe in the first few letters of Genesis, in Hebrew. Even the letters themselves and the way they are formed has significance. The story that is also conveyed by the words is simple enough to be handed down from generation to generation until we had advanced enough to understand it. Stan has found evidence that we were smart enough about 200 years ago, but the knowledge was lost again. The beauty of God's plan is that this knowledge is encapsulated in a vessel that will survive the ages.
210 posted on 11/13/2005 12:01:05 PM PST by SubMareener (Become a monthly donor! Free FreeRepublic.com from Quarterly FReepathons!)
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