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

To: one_less who wrote (24496)	7/10/2006 12:48:58 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

"but it seems a bit remiss to simply declare it as created or destroyed, or not created or destroyed at any point in time." Nobody wants to bury somebody who is still alive. Nobody wants to electrocute somebody for destroying a life unless it is demonstrable. Most people know when a life has ended. Life is really awesome. The earth did not always have conditions for ANY form of life. There is no life that cannot be destroyed with the right temperature or poison. Will a nuclear bomb destroy life? I guess so... "it seems a bit remiss to simply declare it as created or destroyed, or not created or destroyed at any point in time." We have a responsibility to make that judgement. One cannot electrocute a man when the supposed victim yet lives. Nor can one bury a person whom is only supposed to be deceased.

To: one_less who wrote (24496)	7/10/2006 1:10:14 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 28931

I wonder if there is life in any other galaxies? I believe there probably is. The Origin of Life So When Did the First Life Appear on Earth? "Answering the question 'When did life first appear on Earth?' is extremely difficult, because all that we can say from the fossil and chemical evidence is that life was already in existence, when we find the first sedimentary rocks. The oldest sedimentary rocks, however, formed at least 600 million years after the formation of the planet. If there was photosynthesis at 3.7-3.9 billion years ago, then more primitive life forms must have existed well before this time. An comparison between the history of the Early Earth and the history of the Moon shows that there was an important period of meteorite bombardment which ceased between 3.9 and 3.8 billion years ago. This is the same time interval as that of the Isua sediments, the Earth's earliest record of life. Meteorite bombardment of the young Earth would have generated sufficient energy to vaporise the surface layer of the oceans and thereby sterilise the Earth, killing all emergent life. It is possible therefore, that despite many attempts, life was unable to emerge on the Earth until after the 'late heavy bombardment' had ceased at about 3.8 Ga." www2.glos.ac.uk