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to: John Cuccia
from: Robert Comer
date: 2005-11-13 11:30:04
subject: Re: Vatican: Faithful Should Listen to Science

From: "Robert Comer" 

> They aren't making things up out of thin air, though, they are
> discussing the possibilities implicit in the equations.

Given assumptions, or leaps of faith, yes.  (Like the violently expanding
space and the spacetime foam.)

> If you accept that the Universe *is* God (which I was taught as a
> young Catholic boy), then it all makes perfect sense.  These guys are
> talking about Creation, not as a event that happened in the past, but
> as a process that is occuring right now.

There's a problem with that biblically, but I agree in a sense that part of
Creation was the ability to change - a.k.a. evolution.

--
Bob Comer


"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
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> On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 00:32:13 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote:
>
>>> Sorry, all I see is speculation, based on the implications of quantum
>>> mechanics.
>>
>>That's all that I see too, but some of them don't address it as such.
>>(agreed it's just a wording thing...)
>
> They aren't making things up out of thin air, though, they are
> discussing the possibilities implicit in the equations.
>
> If you accept that the Universe *is* God (which I was taught as a
> young Catholic boy), then it all makes perfect sense.  These guys are
> talking about Creation, not as a event that happened in the past, but
> as a process that is occuring right now.

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