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To: kosta50
Actually, As far as we can tell, the entire Creation is going around in circles! as far as we can tell, the universe is expanding from a central location, vice going around in circles. No beginning and no end! Oddly, I assumed that was within the context.

"makes sense" to a limited extent. As in a child mixing colors of paint. We can understand which colors need to be mixed with which other, to get a third color. We have no concept of light, reflection of different wavelengths, the chemical composition of the paint... The limited part we do understand, "makes sense". The whole of God's creation; no way. Is the current context clear enough, or shall I try once more?

380 posted on 02/09/2005 9:39:09 PM PST by packrat01 (Politics:Saying "Islam is a religion of peace" while seeking final destruction of Islamist Terrorism)
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To: packrat01
I am glad it "makes sense" to you that the Creation is expanding at thousands of miles per hour into an abyss of nothing. That is just the kind of intelligent design we would consider "sensible".

Even the very "existence" of empty space of such unimaginable proportions is an engima not for the physicists but for an intellect as well.

Or to accept as "sensible" that the entire existence as far as we can see is made up of zillions of planets circling themselves, being circled by smaller satellites, while circling a star that usually circles another or even two stars, all of which is part of a galaxy that circles a black hole that swallows up all that and spits it out somewhere else...and that of the 27 hextratrillion stars that are visible (that's more stars than grains of sand on all the beaches and in all the deserts on earth), and hundreds of millions of galaxies and billions of stars to choose from, God picked a tiny satellite in a peripheral arm of an average galaxy to make man in His own image.

Not only that, but He created the worlds we will never reach, never see and never know because we cannot physically get there. He made sulfur lava eruptions on one of the moons of Jupiter, which is itself a ball of gas just small enough not to become a second sun, and so on and so on. Even the variety of species on animals on earth that we never saw, and planets we never ate, and volcanoes and fish that need fluorescent chemicals and live in depths of water that would crush us into a paper-thin pancake...all that makes "sense" to you!?

Mixing colors of pain makes no sense to a child. It's attractive! It get their attention for a millisecond or so, but makes no sense, that you can be sure of. They don't spend a moment pondering why they like blue more than yellow.

381 posted on 02/10/2005 4:06:03 AM PST by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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