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kooka_lives -- the biggest problem with using the big bang theory to prove
or disprove anything is that there are only a handful of people on this planet at any given time that can fully comprehend the sound mathematical contention that this theory is premised upon. This makes it very likely that anyone using this theory as a foundation for contention has only a rudimetary grasp of it's principles or worse, knows little of what they speak. We do not know how the universe came to be. Our limitations of comprehension suggest an influencing event of some sort. For some people, an overwhelming desire for this event to be divine intervention precludes all other possibilities. So where did God come from? Directly from mankind's desire for there to be a God.
posted by
gomedome
on September 30, 2005 at 10:50 AM
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Exactly!
The answer keeps on being, "Resting on another turtle..." and, finally, coming to the conclusion that "It's just turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down!!! 
Please read this!
posted by
Ainsley_Jo_Phillips
on September 30, 2005 at 10:28 AM
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Sort of like the belief of the earth resting on a turtule's back. The question is what is the turtule resting on?
posted by
WhiteJedi
on September 30, 2005 at 10:16 AM
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That one is a real poser--stumps me, too!!!
All I can say is that we humans are used to living in a dimension that is measured in time, beginnings, and endings, and it's beyond our capabilities to comprehend the concept of infinity (at least, when going backwards where it never begins no matter how far back you might go--though it's more easy to imagine going forward without end).
It, by the same token, is hard to comprehend a God without physical borders.
God--and this is what the Bible says--is spirit.
When He walked in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve, He took on a body in order to be recognized by them. When He appeared to Moses as a burning bush, He was in a character/object that Moses could relate to.
But those appearances really weren't God. They were a manifestation of Him, because an unending being/spirit can't be completely contained in a single human form or in a burning bush.
Michaelangelo once painted Him as a huge brain--showing that he was onto the right track. But even that couldn't completely capture God.
Who is God? What/Who is the universe? What/Who is infinity?
I think that the definition of Himself (and I use Himself as a defining description rather than to make God into a man) He gave to Moses says it really well:
"I am who I am!"
"I Am" Bless You!
AJ 
Legend has it that, one day,
a young man was walking along the beach
when he came across an old man picking up starfish
that had washed ashore and tossing them back into the ocean.
He informed the old man that there were thousands of starfish
along countless miles of beach...
"Do you really believe that you can save them all?" he asked.
The old man, without a word, bent over
and picked up another starfish,
tossed it out into the ocean,
and, then, responded:
"I saved this one!"
Keeping that in mind, please read this!
posted by
Ainsley_Jo_Phillips
on September 30, 2005 at 9:52 AM
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