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To: Dumpster Baby
What? I don't believe in the Big Bang Theory any more than I believe in the Poof Theory. Both theories are unproven and essentially unprovable, given the scale of the issue.

So do you believe evolution is provable?

163 posted on 06/21/2006 10:35:00 AM PDT by DungeonMaster (More and more churches are nada scriptura.)
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To: DungeonMaster
" So do you believe evolution is provable?"

I don't know if it is or not. There's still a whole lot of people still working on that, and they frequently disagree with each other. I'm calmly waiting to see if any proofs occur during my lifetime, just as I'm calmly waiting to see if any proofs of creationism occur during my lifetime. In the meantime, there will be a *whole lot* of conjecture and theorizing on one side, and a *whole lot* of The Standard Smug Pat Robertson Smile on the other side. Neither side can be proven to be right or proven to be wrong at this time on issues on the scale of the universe and all of time.

What I object to is *anyone* who claims to have the definitive answer to immense issues that physically encompass the entire universe and all of time. The human species only started looking into all this a few seconds ago, based on the best approximation of the age of the universe. We just got here, we just started looking around, and we just acquired the ability to think and reason a very short time ago, compared to the best approximation of "all of time". We've got a very long way to go yet. Or, maybe not - maybe tomorrow (insert deity of choice) will drop down out of the sky and kick our miserable butts for us. It remains to be seen. No one knows. We're still trying to find out. I'm watching and listening and thinking. Right now I'm trying to figure out just why in the HECK those 17-year cicadas lie around for 17 years underground and what in the HECK signals them to come up. I would like to know just how in the HECK they got that way. I don't just shrug it off as (insert your deity)'s will and forget about it.

209 posted on 06/21/2006 11:24:08 AM PDT by Dumpster Baby ("Hope somebody finds me before the rats do .....")
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