A real elephant ear for you, Elsie the troll!
Posted on 08/18/2005 5:17:34 PM PDT by curiosity
I know. You are still trying to prove that the sun revolves around the earth.
Time would not exist unless there were a sequence to events. It could be that the past, present, and future are pre-cast, and that a time sequence law is in-place that glues the sequence in a rigorously, orderly fashion. That would contradict quantum physics, and would require some formidable substantiation to support.
Curiously, Quantum, and Einstein physics also allow that logical sequence can be violated, such that event A can be a (or apparent) consequence of event B, rather than a cause of event A. Perhaps it is a temporary state (or perceptual state) that Event A causes Event B, and sometime in the future Event B will (be seen to) cause Event A.
If the universe were closed, the collapsing universe would be a time reversed replica of the expanding universe.
Not really. No more than your return flight home takes you back to the time of your original departure.
You've wasted enough of my time. If you can't help but misrepresent my position perhaps a ping to the admin moderator will help keep your posting style in check.
I am one conservative that says, look God created it. That's what I believe and who I worship. You want me to believe ANYTHING else, you better prove it beyond the shadow of a doubt and even then, no promises.
The cat says ""I have always imagined that Hell will be a kind of scientific lab!."
So why do we lose the immune system too? Doesn't seem fair.
And I was only extremely indirectly reffering to procreation. I was think more in engineering terms. For any system the failure pattern follows a bathtub curve 
There is no point in trying to extend the useful life if it requires overengineering the system to beyound optinum cost. At the same time it is a bad idea to go for the cheapest production cost it makes the normal life failure life incidence high.
Translating back into biological terms (and for humans - coverting the time line from hours to days), it comes to Owen Lovejoy's theories on the balance berween r (reproduction) and K (parental care of the offspring).
Oysters have high r (millions of eggs) and zero K. All the energy is devoted to producing eggs but it's not very efficient for the oyster as most of them become food for other species. You (or Lewis Carroll) could say providing meals for others is the oysters' purpose.
On the other hand the Great Apes have low r (one offspring every few years) and high K. This is an extreme strategy too as extending the useful life does not address the limiting problem of low replacement production that all bar one of the Great Apes species have.
It was sarcasm. Get a life.
Then perhaps it would have been best if you kept your comment to yourself.
I was responding to your comment about my train being on the wrong track. Apparently you feel you can jest and the AM will protect you from any responses.
Hon, I just wanta live! The rest is static. And I wanta move without needing medicine. And I would rather not have any other deteriorating diseases. And I would like to see my grandchildren have children to see how much my genes have been diluted. I would like to see the greats do the same thing.
I've missed you too.
I don't know why he went to the AM. One would think he would bypass the AM and go straight to God.
True. Time to leave. Have fun.
Knock of the personal attacks
There is some significance to the Creation of Scripture leading to an understanding of what man is in relationship to God. Some of that significance is obscured when one attempts to avoid some literal statements in Scripture to condone an evolutionary worldview.
This doesn't insist some arguments and proofs observed by 'evolutionists' aren't worthy of consideration, rather, IMHO science that fails to humble itself to Scripture isn't worthy science in the first place.
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