Posted on 06/06/2009 6:10:41 PM PDT by neverdem
Upon reflection, I have changed my sermon for tomorrow. I will inform my congregation that because they believe the Bible they are non-Christians. Because they believe that evolution is wrong and that creation is much longer than 6000 years, they are not Christians.
I’m sure this will go over big.
However, in the name of correctness, I will sacrifice my beliefs and the beliefs of millions of Christians to get the story right.
I have also decided to make a proclamation to all my fellow pastors that they have been preaching a falsehood to their prisoners.
Thank you sir for setting me straight.
If you believe the Bible you necessarily believe God was around a very long time ~ just as He told you.
God has no beginning nor end. He created time and when his promises to mankind are done, time will disappear. What does this have to do with anything? He created all that we have in six days … nuff said, in my humble opinion.
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I believe that this group includes zero archaeologists, since archaeologists generally date the Sphinx to roughly the period of the nearby pyramids. The Sahara had become totally arid by that time, in fact the drying of the Sahara is often given credit for the rise of Egyptian civilization, since the people moved to the river valley, increasing the population density, requiring more intensive irrigation. This required greater coordination of the labor in the area.
I heard Huck say that with my own ears in one of his sermons. But you seem to know it all so I will defer to
your infallible wisdom.
You can get anything you want there.
There is a variance of 4,875 feet. One can only wonder why the discrepancy is so large.
Either there was less snow fall and ice accumulation, one area has been there a shorter time or one area is much warmer.
It reminds me of the woman on the commercial where she bought stuff to build her house and saved between 30 and 40 thousand $$$. There is a variance of $10K or 30%. The imprecision makes you wonder.
At this stage of our development of the science of manipulating time we are able to conjecture quite a few things including the idea that the flow of time from one defined interval to the next may well be different.
Last time I heard anything about it a group in Antarctica had determined that there are at least three different dimensions of time ~
It is entirely possible that the whole thing was built in a millisecond in one dimension while appearing to occur over 13 billion years in the second dimension, or as a phase shift in the third ~ or in any cobination of those things.
I'd suggest the yahoos are those who reject string theory.
As they say in India as they fold their hands together as a greeting or salutation, "Namaste, all things are possible".
String and Super String theory are the most interestingly incomprehensible concepts I've yet to encounter.
Definitely.
I have no math chops. But I’m fascinated by even the notions that string theory propose. But I’m completely clueless, I don’t get it. But I like it. But it can’t be true. But math doesn’t lie (does it?) But I have no math chops...
Didn’t the earth do a flop at least once, moving its poles drastically? It seems I read that they’ve seen a polarity anomaly in rocks, where some rock has molecules aligned east or west, instead of North as they would normally be.
The 'poles' (magnetic) are constantly on the move.
String theory simply says the constants in the Universe are not always the same in other universes. And vice versa.
I think it's fascinating that they haven't noticed that when you look at the night sky (through the magic of telescopes on Hubble) you see galaxies, etc. interspersed with vast amounts of emptiness. According to string theory that's how the multi-verse should look ~ just islands of stuff of different kinds, packed wall to wall, with only those that operate on the same "frequency" being visible to you in your own universe.
Originally, way back in the 1920s "they" thought that our galaxy was the entirity of the Universe. Then they found other galaxies. Still, lots of astronomers and physicists put a lot of thought into evaluating what's going on in just this galaxy as if it were the universe.
It may well be a "local universe". The empty space may simply be full of stuff we can't sense outside of the gravity, and the light we see from other galaxies may just be light that operates the way our light does which is why we sense it.
He who is the Alpha and Omega knows, and obviously He has been at work for eons.
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