Creationism dismissed as 'a kind of paganism' by Vatican's astronomer

The Scotsman ^ | May 5, 2006 | IAN JOHNSTON

[furball4paws]

Since you're not being paid, go ahead. You will anyway :-)

[bondserv]

We're creating matter now? What's next, destroying it?

That stuff squeezes in weird ways.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

It also reminds us that scientists, Christian and otherwise have been wrong about a lot of things and right about others.

Even still, Max Planck had it right.
Science advances funeral by funeral.

[ToryHeartland]

What thread?

[anguish]

Then one has to explain to me how the plant life existed for millions of years with out the sun.

Perhaps in the same way the plants didn't instantly die when zapped to life on cold sun-less rock?

[trashcanbred]

Being everywhere, it's probably incorrect to speak of God as being in motion with respect to anything. And nothing is in motion with respect to God. Thus, by definition, there is no time dilation factor for God. He is the ultimate privileged frame of reference

I am not a physicist so I may be wrong but... motion relative to a "stationary reference" is but one way a time dilation rate difference may be observed, right? Two different places in space may also have an observable time dilation if the 'space' of one place is more "warped" than the other. The closer you get to a gravitational body such as a black hole, star, planet, the slower time "flows" compared to a place in space that is not as warped.

I sure hope I didn't butcher the terms too much...

[ahayes]

I'm so opposed to posting on this thread that I'm not even logged in.

[PatrickHenry]

You are correct. Acceleration or gravitation will result in a time difference between two frames of reference. But again, as God is present everywhere, with respect to everything, I see no possibility of time dilation when speaking of God. But I'm not a theologian; and even if I were, I couldn't possibly understand how God experiences things.

Well, I can think of something ... consider an anaconda, 50 feet long, arranged vertically with his head at the roof of a 5-story building and his tail at the ground level. Time is passing slightly slower on the ground, due to the stronger gravity there. So perhaps, like our anaconda, God could, within himself, experience various rates of time. I don't know what this means in the context of Genesis.

[shuckmaster]

it shouldn't surprise us when we find T-Rex bones with soft tissue inside.

It would surprize me. Show me!

[King Prout]

I'm having all the adventure I can handle this night, being a new, pleased, and somewhat horrified owner of a Cold Steel "chisa" katana.

O.M.F.FSM!

[Coyoteman]

I'm having all the adventure I can handle this night, being a new, pleased, and somewhat horrified owner of a Cold Steel "chisa" katana.

May your swash never buckle.

[King Prout]

this thing is frightfully sharp, and quite lively despite being significantly heavier than a normal katana.

I'm being VERY respectful as I learn its handling.

I think I'd be wise to make a steel-core boken patterened after its weight and balance, just to be on the safe side as I familiarize myself... If I tag myself with *this* monster, it will be, ah, bad.

[VadeRetro]

Not this one, not that I know what "this" refers to.

[andysandmikesmom]

Is that Katana a sword of sorts?

[grey_whiskers]

Interesting perspective. Of course, let me be the first to point out it's one man's opinion, and certainly not canonical.

That's more charitable than I had come to expect of you...

Cheers!

[balrog666]

Been there. Cool place.

Can you get me a T-Shirt?

[Right Wing Professor]

That's more charitable than I had come to expect of you...

Charming and graceful as ever.

[bondserv]

it shouldn't surprise us when we find T-Rex bones with soft tissue inside.

It would surprize me. Show me!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1593799/posts

[King Prout]

a sword, yes. single edged, curved, two-handed, with a distinct wedge-like tip. though only a traditionally-forged, folded, multi-billet, differentially-quenched blade can be accurately called a real katana, any blade patterned closely after the Japanese archetype is usually called one.

[andysandmikesmom]

Wow...that was quite a description...made me dizzy...

My dad had an interest in odd things...he had an immense collection of knives of all sizes, along with billy clubs and handcuffs...he also had a small collection of swords, maybe about 10 of them...one of them he called a katana..now I dont know if it was, as you say, a real katana, or just any blade patterned after the Japanese archetype...but he sure did love these types of things...