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Oh my goodness.? String theory and religious fundamentalism, oy vay.? We can put this on a much simpler level without getting esoteric. 

My degree is in anthropology.? Through this major we learned about all sorts of people, their origins and the origin of their respective religions and creation stories.? There are a plethora of them out there.? A person from any culture can pick and choose which ones make sense to them and which ones don't.? They are colorful, thought provoking and have deep meaning to the people that they mean something to.? One thing that stands paramount, is that before we had science and scientific inquiry, Man (or Woman) needed to develop the stories in order to understand things and events they could not comprehend on certain levels.? Thus, the elaborate stories.? Science and geology have shown us in more recent times, and it's just evident to me at least, that by looking at the rocks on the ground around you, that this huge rock we live on is eons old, much older than any of the stories could ever consider.? To me this has always made practical and logical sense.? To others, well they don't always see the same things I do.? I'm very comfortable with the earth being old enough to support the formation of fossils millions of years old.? But that's me.

Tammi


-----Original Message-----
From: The Edgars <theedgars at shaw.ca>
To: amber at ambericawest.com
Sent: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 4:58 pm
Subject: Amber Listserv / Amber and the Bible



im not religious by any means but one defiantly cannot take theory as fact giving enough time all theories will be proven false or changed to the extent that they cannot be considered the same

a good example would be string theory if you take in to account that a string propagating in a flat 26 dimensional space-time with the coordinates Xm(s.T)?creates 4 different quantum mechanical string theories that all work depending on your choice of boundary conditions you use to solve the equations of motion?

and they cant all be right

not to say that theories are a bad thing they did get us to the moon and help us get the right change at the grocery store but we are dealing with a spices so primitive that they have figured out which part of?a sphere in space is up

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ps sorry about the non elevated m in the equation im to lazy to figure out how to type it

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