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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (23620)5/17/2006 10:22:47 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
in order to analogise-

The analogies have to change all the time to fit new data.

I don't think the enormity of the idea of the universe can be comprehended, so we have to fall back on comprehending little bits of it, like the bind men and their elephant.

Sometimes I wonder if the big bang is really a single event (or even on of several similar events) or if it could really be the continuous process of a white-hole. Perhaps we are spewing out in a cone - not a linear cone but one which expands like the bell of a trumpet. In this pondering, the reason that it looks like a big bang happened at a particular time in the past is that we can only "see" from our current location back to the singularity, and since time as we know it stops there, it looks like a beginning. Ouch! I think I sprained something.

TP
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