Subj : Re: The universe
To   : Dave Oldridge
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Thu Nov 09 2000 07:06 pm

-=> DAVE OLDRIDGE wrote to JOHN WILSON <=-

 DO> Not necessarily.  The world has a North pole, but there is
 DO> nothing north of it.

 DO> And I'm not being facetious here.  Time-space does seem to focus
 DO> on a singularity that we refer to as "the beginning" and we see
 DO> copious astronomical evidence in support of this.  If this model
 DO> is correct, then "before" the Big Bang is about as meaningless as
 DO> "north of the North Pole."

Are you contradicting or agreeing with the classic understanding of
creatio ex nihlo? (Or, as we say in Jewish thought, yesh m'ayin.)

                       JBL

.... What is mind? No matter! What is matter? Never mind! - Homer S.
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