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Samuel A. (Sam) Cox on January 28, 2005 at 20:57:55 (Message posted from "unknown" at 68.45.160.182) - explanation In Reply to: "metamorphysician" posted by RingoKid on January 28, 2005 at 14:36:17
but here goes this human intuition stuff again. Parents who were Tsunami victims walking by the sea waiting for the sea to give back their drowned children; burying dead with items to be used in a presumed afterlife; comparing our understanding of the universe- or lack thereof- to a dog touring a dogfood factory (smacks of entropy and complexity!); cosmic butterflies causing galaxies to form; and then the clincher: "If I was wasn't here the universe would be a vastly different place". All of this intuition, whether intended as jest or not comes from our subliminal understanding of our universe, which on a conscious level, on the 4D event horizon surfaces from which we observe it, seems to confuse us. If you were not here, millions of people in the future would never exist, and the universe would indeed be a vastly different place. In fact, for you at least, the universe wouldn't exist at all. You and I...all of us are a part of something much larger than ourselves; a creative and organizing process which permeates the whole. Its eternal presence, organizes, stabilizes and gives permanence to each of its almost invariant frames. Yet each one of us has been bequeathed individuality (a 4D invariant frame from conception to "death"), a unique point of view. Also in a unique way, because we have a certain commonality of frame we can see each other, communicate, learn and experience "life". The pope of the Roman Catholic church remarked a few years back that organic evolution is much more than a hypothesis. As a protestant, I question the doctine of papal inerrancy, but I will tell you that the pope spoke the absolute truth when he made that remark. The evidence for organic evolution is so powerful that to deny the process exists indicates either a lack of education or religous fanaticism...more often than not- both. The pope is a deeply religous man. He obviously believes in God and creation, but he also has the sense to know that an omnipotent God can and will create living things in any way he sees fit even if our origins seem ever so humble! The pope also understands the arrogance of redneck fanatics who would tell the almighty how to proceed in the creative process, or assert that they know better than God how to proceed. I am also telling this forum that Quantum Mechanics and Special and General Relativity are likewise much more than hypotheses. The power of the evidence that these concepts must form the foundation of our understanding of reality is so strong that only fanatics would assert they are but "ideas" or hypotheses. These things started as ideas between the ears of Einstein, Bohr, Mach, Schwarzschild and a large group of others, but very, very careful measurements of the universe point to their veracity. In fact, some of the most simple observations of the universe: periodicity everywhere, approcimate sphericity all around us, chiral surfaces and the way objects accelerate in a gravitational field also indicate their correctness. So what if the universe is profound, almost magical in its qualities? We are a part of it, and everything mankind learns and adds to our store of information likewise indicates we have been around in the past- and will be also in the future. A great post! |
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