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To: Dataman
A vacuum is something.

Uh, no, a vacuum is the absence of 'something'. Specifically it is the abscence of matter, which would allow for it to contain light, but it does not contain light by definition, so a vacuum could very well be 'nothing'.

...unless you are speaking of a vacuum cleaner, which isn't quite the same thing.
813 posted on 05/09/2003 12:42:13 PM PDT by Dimensio (Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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To: Dimensio
Uh, no, a vacuum is the absence of 'something'. Specifically it is the abscence of matter, which would allow for it to contain light, but it does not contain light by definition, so a vacuum could very well be 'nothing'.

Oh. Light, energy and matter exist in nothing. Space is nothing. The universe is therefore nothing even as it expands. OK, real good....

Do you think a vacuum requires space? Space is something-- even your naturalistic cosmologists admit that. A vacuum is the absence of something like a steak dinner is the absence of chicken. Things can exist in a vacuum. Things cannot exist in nothing.

I find the great lengths at which you evos will go to deny the obvious nothing short of astounding-- especially when creationists are accused of the same thing.

824 posted on 05/09/2003 12:57:13 PM PDT by Dataman
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