From owner-biophysics@net.bio.net Wed Nov 18 22:00:00 1998 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!newsfeed.telalink.net!usenet From: "News" Newsgroups: bionet.biophysics,bionet.microbiology,bionet.neuroscience Subject: Re: K.P. the beast Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 10:51:12 -0600 Organization: Telalink Corporation, Nashville, TN, USA Lines: 39 Message-ID: <72s9eb$2fe@apple.telalink.net> References: <721spg$cr7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36449D67.378533CC@pop3.concentric.net> <36449FE2.313F8F3@pop3.concentric.net> <36477CA4.D2FED10@pop3.concentric.net> <3647B373.953F0A70@pop3.concentric.net> <3649B0AF.E720E242@psci.net> <364AAB63.C5056FB9@pop3.concentric.net> <364B5C6D.75E14B08@indiana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.234.7.126 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Xref: biosci bionet.biophysics:4549 bionet.microbiology:15044 bionet.neuroscience:25833 Deano wrote in message ... >Hi, >I just wanted to say that I agree with you completely. Science shouldn't >have to be cross-referenced with the bible. The bible is just a book with >facts mixed in with certain moral stories (well that's how I think of it >anyway, hope I don't offend too many people). >Look what happened when geologists tried to work out how old the earth was. >They looked at the bible and worked out when the world was created by going >along the family tree of Adam & Eve. They ended up with a figure of a few >thousand years. If you try to tell anyone this now they'd laugh at you. >Maybe in the future people will look back and think how silly some people >were for thinking that the earth was made by some strange entity? >Just adding my 2 cents. >Deano. > > The few thousand year version may not be as absurd as it may sound. If we are dealing with a superior being, one able to manipulate matter and energy at will, the creation of a universe in a short time span is not a great stretch. Also, we are not told if this is the first time that 'God' created the universe or not. What if this being had tried other lifeforms, tired of the experiment or decided it to be a failure? If this being is like most researchers, it would keep a copy of the basic instructions necessary to reproduce the experiment. If the being has the ability to manipulate matter and energy as we are discussing, it would not be a stretch to envision it having the capability to store a representation of the universe in it's last known state, such that it could be re-instated should the need or desire arise. Similar to the concept of a 'holodeck' If this were the case, the resultant universe would appear with a timeline different from the inhabitants created. True, my ideas here are strictly conjecture, and in the overall scheme of things will matter very little. However there seems to be this conception that you have to be on one side or the other of this arguement. It appears that for some of us at least, there is a middle ground. .