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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: Greg or e who wrote (14571)	1/16/2003 5:31:01 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) of 28931

If you are saying that the first quantum singularity just jumped into existence on it's own with no outside force or catalyst then you believe in spontaneous generation my friend. If the universe is the result of a definite cause and effect follows cause in a definite manner then we are in a deterministic universe. This was Newton's view, for each action there a reaction which can be determined if you know enough about the initial conditions. Such reactions can be complex and chaotic, so much so that they are unpredictable since enough information about past causes could not be obtained. Still, they would unfold in a definite way. It would be as if the universe were a simulation. The future would be fated without free will or possiblility of change. A universe constrained to a single outcome is much more ordered than one which is random. Constrained is another word for unlikely, pretty much infinitely unlikely, and yet the only way to avoid it is if some part in the makeup of our universe is truely random, which means for that part there is no relationship between cause and effect. TP TP

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