tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13030925.post115212000638200214..comments2024-01-25T13:46:11.967-06:00Comments on The Bronze Blog: Dogfight #2: The HomsarmyRyan Michaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14750814560493466382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13030925.post-1152127759170511332006-07-05T14:29:00.000-05:002006-07-05T14:29:00.000-05:00Actually, it's not entirely incorrect to say that ...Actually, it's not entirely incorrect to say that time began with the Big Bang. It's kind of sloppy wording, maybe, but there's a sense in which it's true.<BR/><BR/>However, to leap from there to the declaration that there must have been an intelligence responsible for that beginning is indeed ludicrous. If anything, the fact that the Big Bang represents an endpoint for time (roughly speaking; as you say, it can be looked upon as kind of wrapping around) represents a rather difficult <I>problem</I> for believers in a divine (or "Intelligent") Creation. The Creator can't have existed before the Big Bang, since there <I>is</I> no such thing as "before the Big Bang", so...does the Creator exist outside time? What, if anything, does that <I>mean</I>?<BR/><BR/>Which is why most Creationists try to deny the Big Bang alongside the theory of evolution. I think this is the first time I've seen anyone try to use the Big Bang as an argument <I>for</I> an intelligent Creator! Yeesh...An Anonymous Cowardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14379884817819168388noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13030925.post-1152124735914445282006-07-05T13:38:00.000-05:002006-07-05T13:38:00.000-05:00What makes the guy so amazingly unbelievable, is h...What makes the guy so amazingly unbelievable, is how well his arguments make the point for evolution without his seeming to understand them.<BR/><BR/>I think he just needs "random" and "chance" defined more clearly, or something. He seems to think they mean "without any physical rules operating upon" a thing. That's why went to such lengths to state that the effects of physical rules have been observed in action (actually, I think you may have clarified the "effects" part.) <BR/><BR/>As you mentioned, M-theory involves as much randomness as anything which follows from it; including the clashing of the particular "strings" which theoretically would have initiated the Big Bang.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for inserting this bit:<BR/><BR/><I><B>I was raised by a cup of coffee.</I></B><BR/><BR/>LOL! I really needed an <I>honest</I> absurdity right about then.Michael Bainshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13734972725056899460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13030925.post-1152121353716315972006-07-05T12:42:00.000-05:002006-07-05T12:42:00.000-05:00Well done! I hope you didn't suffer too much brai...Well done! I hope you didn't suffer too much brain damage after reading through that guy's writing!EthylBenzenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08809013705471938666noreply@blogger.com