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In reply to the discussion: What if God was a singularity? [View all]rlegro
(338 posts)49. It would be interesting...
... if any time machine could reach back to a point where the universe was on the verge of forming and TIME DIDN'T EXIST. An old Green Lantern comic book addressed this many years ago. A villain has a time viewer and wants to see what happened when the universe began. But there's a kind of cosmic censor that prevents him from going all the way back. Which makes a kind of sense, given current cosmological thinking. Or, as Virginia Wolfe put it, "There's no there, there." So you can't go there or be there because "there" is not there yet. My other favorite analogy in this matter is an unattributed quote, maybe from Marshall McLuhan: We don't know who discovered water, but we're pretty sure it wasn't the fish.
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Are you suggesting the authors of Genesis didn't actually believe in a six-day creation?
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2017
#91
Perhaps it is because you seem to believe opinions are justified by virtue of their own existence.
Act_of_Reparation
Nov 2017
#131
No. The point is that the biblical cosmology was accepted as accurate for about 1400
Voltaire2
Nov 2017
#139
Please go read what (Eastern) Orthodox Christianity founded in 33 A.D. (or B.C.E.
sprinkleeninow
Nov 2017
#143
If you were talking to Bronze Age human, after arriving in your time machine,
guillaumeb
Nov 2017
#124
That's not half bad. (Not a wise acreage remark from me.) end of message
sprinkleeninow
Nov 2017
#106
I've never seen or talked to a water buffalo. Nevertheless, I believe they exist.
TomSlick
Nov 2017
#39