Posted on 08/07/2008 9:57:23 PM PDT by neverdem
Goldilocks isnt the only one who demanded everything to be just right. The Earth and its fellow seven planets also needed perfect conditions to form as observed, and those right conditions occur rarely, a new computer simulation shows.
The new simulation, described in the Aug. 8 Science, is the first to trace from beginning to end how planetary systems form from an initial gas disk encircling a baby star.
The really striking result of the new model is how chaotic and even violent the average story of a planets birth is, says Edward Thommes, an astrophysicist now at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
The process is typically a big mess. Planets get into each others' personal space, gravitationally scattering each other. They compete with each other for gas from the disk that gives birth to them and lots of planets are lost along the way, he says. It's almost like reality TV.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencenews.org ...
There was no Physics, and there was no high school at that time. Genesis is not a Physics manual. It is a story with a religious meaning. Does any of that make sense to you?
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No, of course not.
That was brilliant.
I’ve thought for many years that time is something that God created for man’s benefit, so that we can organize our lives.
I had agonized for years over “Which is true, seven days, or a billion years?” Then it occurred to me (revealed I guess) that it could be both, and that our finite minds cannot comprehend “time” as He does.
“God can do what he wants.”
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Better:
We can define God any way we want — to assuage our fear of death, and “solve” the mysteries about our existence. And for those things that do not make sense if we believe in a God, we can simply shrug and say, “God can do what he wants.” In other words, for the weak-minded, we can solve life’s mysteries by conjuring up a mysterious creator and interloper.
I wasnt there, you werent there, none of us were there.
But some of us know Someone who was.
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The Flying Spghetti Monster??????
And recall, 4.3332 x 10421,843,367 draws ago, that universe emerged with the physical laws that were similar to the ones we have, and there was that planet that had those self-replicating silicon-based structures, roughly similar to the "viruses" that we see in our universe.
And how about those ones where the laws were different from thsi universe?
You don't remember them?
Well, are you trying to limit God...to say that there's no way He couldn't have created 10932,223,452,481,938,323,879,571,698,879 universes prior to this one?
We just wouldn't know...whether God or "nature" created so many universes prior to ours. "Time" is not a current in which we all float at a constant rate...especially when you go outside the universe.
Note: this topic is from August 7th, 2008. Thanks neverdem.
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Note: this topic is from August 7th, 2008. Thanks neverdem.Something like this has been posted more recently, but I couldn't find it. Here's a hunt for Peter Ward Donald Brownlee:
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In real life, gravity has no power to form swirling disks of “solar aterial” into planets. Cosmic objects are mostly plasma physics phenomena, 99 point something percent of the mass of the universe is in plasma form, giant currents run through the plasma, and the one thing in the picture which has any real power to agglomerate material into galaxies, strings of galaxies, stars, and planets, is the Z-pinch phenomenon associated with Birkeland currents.
Perhaps he wanted to show us in the physical universe a reflection of his nature, his character: infinite, eternal, long-suffering, artistic, ordered and, yes, creative too...
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