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History Channel - The Universe - Before the Big Bang
February 25, 2008 | Chuck Plante - aka backtothestreets

Posted on 02/25/2008 1:30:39 PM PST by backtothestreets

Heads up! Tomorrow night (February 26, 2008 at 9:00 PM), the History Channel will air a new segment of their Universe series that could be very interesting. It will try to address what was before the Big Bang. This is a subject I don't see anyway of discussing without raising religious beliefs.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: historychannel; origins; religion; science; stringtheory; universe
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Because religion does carry significant political weight in our society and elections, I thought it appropriate to list this under News/Activism.
1 posted on 02/25/2008 1:30:41 PM PST by backtothestreets
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To: backtothestreets

bump


2 posted on 02/25/2008 1:32:21 PM PST by mnehring ("Ronald Reagan has made Jimmy Carter look like a conservative..."- Ron Paul)
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To: backtothestreets

I will watch...some scientists theorize that the universe has been expanding and contracting for eons. Interesting stuff, religious implications aside.


3 posted on 02/25/2008 1:33:25 PM PST by Slapshot68
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To: backtothestreets

Just a thought in the Lord’s mind.


4 posted on 02/25/2008 1:33:34 PM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: backtothestreets

“This is a subject I don’t see anyway of discussing without raising religious beliefs.”

This is the media we’re talking about. Of course they will find ways to discuss it without religious beliefs. They might have the guts to mention God, but I suspect that the fact that they reference the Big Bang means that its primarily going to be about cosmology. They’ll probably focus on two theories: 1) the ocillating universe theory, adn 2) the notion that there was nothing before the Big Bang, ie. time simply began at that point, and there was nothing before it.

You wonder why it’s on the History Channel, though.


5 posted on 02/25/2008 1:35:14 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: backtothestreets

Before the big bang the universe was in a marble played with by gigantic beings with sucker fingers. Haven’t any of you seen “Men in Black?”


6 posted on 02/25/2008 1:35:39 PM PST by Greg F (Do you want a guy named Hussein to fix your soul? Michelle Obama thinks you do.)
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To: backtothestreets

It has been a good series and yes this will be interesting. I’m not going to hold my breath expecting them to honor our Creator. I do expect a lot of multi dimensional string theory theories postulated.


7 posted on 02/25/2008 1:36:40 PM PST by A message
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To: backtothestreets
Some people see science and religion as mutually exclusive things. I don't share that view. As far as I'm concerned, the Almighty unquestionably created the heavens and the Earth. All science is trying to do is figure out how He did it.
8 posted on 02/25/2008 1:37:05 PM PST by Digital Sniper (Hello, "Undocumented Immigrant." I'm an "Undocumented Border Patrol Agent.")
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To: Brilliant

“You wonder why it’s on the History Channel, though.”

Unfortunately, the History Channel seems to be going the way of sensational crapola to compete with reality tv. They’re starting a new series about what amounts to Ultimate Fighting Championship...how sad.


9 posted on 02/25/2008 1:37:35 PM PST by Slapshot68
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To: Brilliant

Or they’ll throw in references to religion and then debunk it or slight it or make fun of it. The truth is that the Universe before the bang is so long ago it’s irrelevant.


10 posted on 02/25/2008 1:37:56 PM PST by glide625
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To: backtothestreets

The Universe was just like it is now then, .............there was a big bang.

We’re probably WAY overdue for another.


11 posted on 02/25/2008 1:38:12 PM PST by wolfcreek (Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)
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Did anyone see the Ape story on PBS? Now that one will get ya to thinking.


12 posted on 02/25/2008 1:39:53 PM PST by wolfcreek (Powers that be will lie like Clintons and spend like drunken McCains to push their Globalist agenda.)
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To: backtothestreets

I’ll pass. They have a hard enough time with real science and religion.


13 posted on 02/25/2008 1:39:55 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: backtothestreets

Nah! All the black holes sucked everything up, then they sucked themselves up into a mega-black hole. And then,,,,,KABLOOIE!


14 posted on 02/25/2008 1:40:20 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: beer
"Let there be beer."

15 posted on 02/25/2008 1:40:37 PM PST by evets (beer)
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To: Slapshot68

Please don’t tell me this show will take away from Ice Road Truck Drivers or the search for Big Foot? I mean if the History channel starts looking into the origins of the Universe, how on Earth can we track Bigfoot?

I guess I will have to turn the Weekly World News.

/s


16 posted on 02/25/2008 1:40:37 PM PST by tj21807
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To: backtothestreets
Click here to watch "what preceded the BB".
17 posted on 02/25/2008 1:42:22 PM PST by spunkets ("Freedom is about authority", Rudy Giuliani, gun grabber)
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To: Slapshot68
I will watch...some scientists theorize that the universe has been expanding and contracting for eons.

This expansion and contraction is not purely harmonic. Each successive expansion reaches farther while each successive contraction fails to replicate the original mass by a greater magnitude. This means that there is a beginning that cannot be replicated - ever.

18 posted on 02/25/2008 1:42:33 PM PST by Hoodat (Bull Moose Party Member)
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To: backtothestreets

Quantum theology.


19 posted on 02/25/2008 1:42:46 PM PST by onedoug
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To: tj21807

Unfortunately, the weekly World News went under. I hope Ed Anger found another gig!


20 posted on 02/25/2008 1:43:06 PM PST by GodBlessRonaldReagan (Big dog, big dog, bow-wow-wow! We'll crush crime, now, now, now!)
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