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[Andy Ng]

Thanks to all who replied. Most interesting and much food for thought!

Andy

On 8/30/07, tamber12 at aol.com <tamber12 at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> ps sorry about the non elevated m in the equation im to lazy to figure out
> how to type it
>
> w
>
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