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The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe

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The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 8, 2013 at 10:44 pm
The universe exists because it exists. It doesn't exist for a reason or to serve some purpose.
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 8, 2013 at 11:04 pm
Black holes? Idiot! It's turtles, all the way down!
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 9, 2013 at 9:22 am
The universe exists so I may experience atheistforums.com. I know this, because I'm the center of the universe, and that's what I'm doing.
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 9, 2013 at 9:50 am
(October 8, 2013 at 4:22 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: No the universe is finely tuned to create living beings and black holes are the byproduct of the process. You're getting this all wrong!

Fixed that for you - no need for sentient.

Bacteria have been around for about 4 billion years - that is getting on for a third of the age of the universe and only taking into account this planet.

What is obvious is that it wasn't created for us.
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 9, 2013 at 9:59 am
(October 9, 2013 at 9:22 am)bennyboy Wrote: The universe exists so I may experience atheistforums.com. I know this, because I'm the center of the universe, and that's what I'm doing.
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What? Heretic! lets burn him! Angry Mob
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 9, 2013 at 10:27 am
(October 9, 2013 at 9:59 am)LastPoet Wrote:
(October 9, 2013 at 9:22 am)bennyboy Wrote: The universe exists so I may experience atheistforums.com. I know this, because I'm the center of the universe, and that's what I'm doing.
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What? Heretic! lets burn him! Angry Mob

hahaha oops
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 11, 2013 at 12:03 am
(October 8, 2013 at 4:22 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: No the universe is finely tuned to create sentient living beings and black holes are the byproduct of the process. You're getting this all wrong!



'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
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
October 11, 2013 at 5:29 am
NDT FTW!
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
June 4, 2014 at 4:10 am
Anyone ever wonder if Douglas Adams was a physical manifestation of the universe here to tell us the meaning of the universe?
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RE: The Meaning of the Universe - Maybe
June 4, 2014 at 5:20 am
Here you go, son, "the Golden Shovel Award:
[Image: tenn.jpg]

For digging out a very old thread, in spite of the warnings of necroposting!
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