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In reply to the discussion: Did the virgin birth and the resurrection of Jesus [View all]NeoGreen
(4,030 posts)88. It is Turtles all the way down...
...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
The origins of the turtle story are uncertain. It has been recorded since the mid 19th century, and may possibly date to the 18th. One recent version appears in Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time, which starts:A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"
?Hawking, 1988[1]
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Doctors? What kinda family do you think we are? Faith is all the doctorin' you need son!
ret5hd
Jun 2016
#4
If you live far enough south it happens when brothers and sisters share bathwater
Major Nikon
Jun 2016
#5
And you know there are more plausible expalnations for why you believe that.
cleanhippie
Jun 2016
#20
A more important question - imho is: do you believe that life spontaneously generated
jonno99
Jun 2016
#28
Oh please, are you suggesting that the OP was anything but an opportunity to belittle?
jonno99
Jun 2016
#43
time is not a god unless you add new meanings to the definition of what constitutes a deity.
Warren Stupidity
Jun 2016
#48
The idea that life arose from "primordial goo" is the only one we have any evidence for.
trotsky
Jun 2016
#59
If a creator exists, he certainly doesn't need any help from me. And don't you think it's
jonno99
Jun 2016
#60
A god is a huge step backwards in our understanding on how the Universe works and life got here.
cpwm17
Jun 2016
#65
"Natural processes are generally predictable" - it's convenient how that turned out -
jonno99
Jun 2016
#72
That was my way of saying that you're making an argument for a predecessor to God.
cpwm17
Jun 2016
#83
Of course they did! Also, a monster swallows the sun at night, and a giant turtle holds the earth!
Arugula Latte
Jun 2016
#87