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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (11356)	2/28/2002 5:09:25 PM
From: TigerPaw	Respond to of 28931

I personally suspect there was someone behind it all. The tricky question to ask is whether someone could be behind it all. Could someone with unlimited power and able to exist in multiple dimensions create not just a big bang, but a bang with a goal, namely us. The short answer is only if cause and effect are closely tied, any other arrangement would chaoticly overwhelm any purposefull direction. The net effect of a closely tied cause and effect is predestiny. (There are long answers too but they wind up in the same place) TP

To: J. C. Dithers who wrote (11356)	2/28/2002 7:48:50 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

JC, having brought to light you're personal conclusion as to the BIG O, as member of the "replaced" thread I feel compelled to propose an alternate theory. That's just the way we are. <g> By the way, I find you charming. If you're not female I take it back. As big bang theorists attempt to solve the age problem by making the time to the big bang longer, they exacerbate the quasar problem. Quasars become even farther away and intrinsically brighter. Yet their temperature remains that of ordinary stars as exhibited by emission spectra of metallic ions that can only exist at a limited range of temperature. They are known to be about stellar size since they vary in brightness on a scale of a few minutes to seconds. How do they stay so bright at such a low temperature in such a small volume? They can't. angelfire.com