Note to theists: Seems like an awful waste of space?
Hiero5ant
Matthias Provan
between what looks like particles be just as much of a waste?
~!~
Matthias
Hiero5ant wrote:
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Harlequin
Does everyplace in the universe need to have crammed up with
stuff?
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David Jensen
<Xns93C0A56241035u...@68.12.19.6>:
>Why does God have to share anyone's idea of how to use space?
>
>Does everyplace in the universe need to have crammed up with
>stuff?
My house is a data point for "yes".
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Bobby D. Bryant
> Why does God have to share anyone's idea of how to use space?
>
> Does everyplace in the universe need to have crammed up with stuff?
You're right, of course.
But for exactly the same reason you reveal the vacuousness (no pun
intended!) of the popular fine-tuning argument.
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Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
Harlequin
news:pan.2003.07.22....@mail.utexas.edu:
I will agree. Fine-tuning is vacuous as assuming that if a Supreme
Being exists that He will share in our particular human sense of
aesthetics.
SOGGYNETNUT
Mama says we all have a destiny .
I think its a little of both .- Forest Gump
R. Baldwin
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> In talk.origins, Harlequin <use...@cox.net> wrote in
> <Xns93C0A56241035u...@68.12.19.6>:
>
> >Why does God have to share anyone's idea of how to use space?
> >
> >Does everyplace in the universe need to have crammed up with
> >stuff?
>
> My house is a data point for "yes".
My spouse seems to think "yes."
Hiero5ant
"Matthias Provan" <angry_youn...@hotN0SP4Mmail.com> wrote in message
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> lol...waste of space? What the hell is that supposed to mean? Wouldn't
the space
> between what looks like particles be just as much of a waste?
Touche.
John Thomas Grisham
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/index.html
It's only ten times the grains of sand on Earth.
Let Earth's grains of sand equal "x".
Let Stars in the universe equal "y".
then, "y = 10x"
Damn! It's just another argument for the Metric System, again!
JTG 7/23/03
Napoleon
infinite number of stars, because that cannot
be the case according to the Paradox of Olbers.
If there would be an infinite number of stars the nightsky would be as
bright as the sun.
Salut!,
Napoleon Bon Aparte
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>
Xaonon
<fa07...@skynet.be> teithant i thiw hin:
> I read the article. It is not very scientific to say that there could be
> an infinite number of stars, because that cannot be the case according to
> the Paradox of Olbers.
>
> If there would be an infinite number of stars the nightsky would be as
> bright as the sun.
Not if the universe is N billion years old and only a finite number of the
stars are less than N billion light-years away.
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Bobby D. Bryant
> I read the article. It is not very scientific to say that there could be
> an infinite number of stars, because that cannot be the case according
> to the Paradox of Olbers.
>
> If there would be an infinite number of stars the nightsky would be as
> bright as the sun.
Not in a universe with finite age and a finite speed of light, because the
light from stars beyond the Hubble radius (correct term?) would not have
gotten here yet.
Sverker Johansson
>
> Why does God have to share anyone's idea of how to use space?
If the universe reveals anything about God, it is that He
is inordinately fond of empty space and non-baryonic dark matter.
[adapted from JBS Haldane]
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Bobby D. Bryant
> Harlequin wrote:
>>
>> Why does God have to share anyone's idea of how to use space?
>
> If the universe reveals anything about God, it is that He
> is inordinately fond of empty space and non-baryonic dark matter.
and beetles.
Sverker Johansson
Haldane might have reconsidered his choice, if he had been aware
of the relative fractions of the universe's mass composed
of beetles and of nonbaryonic dark matter.
Von Smith
darkroaches?
Clell Harmon
<fa07...@skynet.be> wrote:
>I read the article. It is not very scientific to say that there could be an
>infinite number of stars, because that cannot
>be the case according to the Paradox of Olbers.
>
>If there would be an infinite number of stars the nightsky would be as
>bright as the sun.
And it will be. Just as soon as the light from that infinite
number of stars gets here.
They're a ways off you know.....
Mike Goodrich
> http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/07/22/stars.survey/index.html
Quite the contrary; it could not have a more worthwhile purpose than
to reveal the glory of God and His unimaginable power.
-mg
Bobby D. Bryant
Insecure, is he? Compensating for a bit of an inferiority complex?
Earle Jones
goodr...@yahoo.com (Mike Goodrich) wrote:
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I guess I must agree with you there: "His power is unimaginable."
In fact, his power is rather limited. He was able to handle ordinary
chariots, but he could not handle chariots made of iron:
"And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants
of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of
the valley, because they had chariots of iron."
--Judges 1:19
My advice is that you should learn your Bible. You evidently are not
familiar with what your Bible has to teach you.
You should read it once in a while, instead of parroting your juvenile
claptrap.
earle
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master and to thee to speak these words? [hath he] not [sent me] to the
men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink
their own piss with you?"
--Isaiah 36:12