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Chiroptera
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Message 10 of 74 (357484)
10-19-2006 2:35 PM
Reply to: Message 9 by tizzwazz
10-19-2006 2:21 PM


Re: Origin of Life
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n'est pas
Non!
If you asking about the beginning of the universe and everything, then the question is problematic.
The beginning of the universe is, presumably, the beginning of when the laws of physics began to operate. Since we can only answer questions based on our understanding of the natural laws, then we have no tools to even begin to ask about this beginning. In fact, since descriptions of "causes" usually invoke phenomena that precede the phenomenon that is being explained, we don't really have any good conception of what can "cause" the universe" -- you would have to ponder what existed "before" time, an oxymoron since, clearly, there is no such thing as a "before" time.
Of course, it is possible that the universe has no cause. It simply exists for no reason (sorry, Robin).
It is also a possibility that there was no beginning -- the universe may have a history that extends infinitely far into the past.
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... then you entering the field of the supernatual
Not necessarily.
Edited by Chiroptera, : typo

"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." -- George Bernard Shaw

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