Matt? he's a friend of mine, and he's on the list because i invited him to join and he's in the five years or so, decided he likes it enough to stick around. Matt, who actually _has_ excellent reading comprehension skills, certainly knows whether or not I'm an aggressive atheist.
If you use the term "community of faith" regularly, btw, do you think that's indicative of "aggressive atheism"? I suppose that's a sign of an aggressive atheist, eh?
I haven't had someone whisper nasty things about me since I was in the 9th grade and the ex gf of the guy I was dating wrote all over the bathroom walls that I was a slut. I'm soooooooo flattered that you feel compelled to protect others on the list by pawning off bullshit characteristics of me. I'm all a flutter and feelin' perky.
<flips hair> thankee!
k
At 05:02 PM 7/21/2005, Matt wrote:
>On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 10:47:26AM -0500, Tommy Kelly wrote:
>
>[...]
>
> > that cannot be pushed aside. Science is getting closer, each generation,
> > to figuring out the nature of the big bang, but what came before it is to
> > broad a scope to figure out (thus I'm open minded toward a deity).
>
>Have to pick a nit. The concept of "before the big bang" is
>nonsensical. The Big Bang is the beginning of *the Universe*, in all
>its dimensions, one of which is *time*. One event preceeding another,
>such that one thing is before the other, requires time that extends at
>least as far as these two events.
>
>So asking what came before the big bang is like drawing a 6 inch line
>on a piece of paper and then moving left on the line past its
>left-most end but still staying on the line. It can't be done, by
>definition, just like statements about what came "before the Big
>Bang" don't make any sense.
>
>Physicist aren't bothered by this definciency in the theory, if you
>see it as such, because it's a human mind/language limitation. That is
>why we use mathematics.
>
>Big Bang's first 3 minutes:
>http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hframe.html
>
>
>Matt
>
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