lordi, this is just like "the sun has stopped" thread.
"No, the human form (which we were discussing) only springs forth from other human forms of life. Nothing but that chain of life can arrange the molecules to form a human body. "
Is a human still a human when one gene is changed, 2? 3? 100? ...etc. Remembering that other completely different life forms share genetic sequences with us, does that make them human? What you call "the human form" is and has been constantly changing through generations of selection. The separation of humans as a life form is purely arbitrary.
"Have you ever considered the notion of a repetitive Big Bang?"
Yes, but DNA cannot exist at temperatures found at the "crunch" part of that cycle -
which part(s) don't you agree with?:
Nucleic acids are molecules made up of atoms,
Life is only possible when nucleic acids retain structure,
molecules and atoms lose structure at *singularity* temperatures,
there were singularity temperatures at the big bang,
Therefore no life was possible at the big bang.
When something is happening now, that was not happening at an earlier time, it can be said that it *started* at some point.
Life was not happening then, and is happening now, so must have started at some point.
Charley said:
"I said the same thing in other words earlier and you were yelling at me, and now you say the same thing with fancy words. "
what are you refering to?
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On the "scientific" Paper:
The nassim position contains a heady amount of massive leaps in logic - he makes assumptions and claims without justifying them - it seems he makes them more to conform how he thinks they *should* be, without due thought to evidence.
"it doesn't deny eternal existence either."
Just because it doesn't deny eternal existence doesn't mean it proves it.
Where does the paper prove eternal existence? if it doesn't then you've just wasted my time by getting me to read it, please explain where it refers to eternal existence.
One last point:
The paper doesn't look properly peer reviewed to me. Its published by:
"The Noetic Press"
Which isn't really in a position to tell whether he's talking rubbish or not.
There are flaws I see in it, and I'm not even a physicist. but I think I've wasted enough of my time on this stuff.