(December 3, 2013 at 11:54 pm)Runner Wrote: I'm new on the forum and I feel a bit overwhelmed reading the posts as most are much more intelligent than I. Maybe this has been covered but here's my question: Has anyone thought outside of the box and questioned the word "beginning"? Did there have to be a beginning? It's a word we have all used and debated with those who believe in a creator. It may be difficult to wrap our head around it but again, why does there have to be a beginning?
Because the laws of thermodynamics implies that there is an end. If there is an end, that implies that there is a beginning. The question is - beginning to what?
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
