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|    Timothy Sutter to All    |
|    Re: Naturalism and Supernaturalism    |
|    21 May 09 17:45:18    |
      XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.god.timothy.sutter, talk.religion.misc       From: a202010@lycos.com-              and speaking of genesis from singularity       and lack of any triggering mechanisms;              you have to provide as clear a description       for the state of affairs -at- Time T = 0              it's only much after that that you       can begin to speak of any sort of       atomic material, and any properties       which accompany that stuff.              properties which include heat content,       electromagnetic forces, gravitational       forces, and atomic forces, work and energy,       cannot be credibly cited as 'locked'       inside of any 'singularity' waiting       to burst forth.              no, these properties are       the -consequence- of       atomic material.              and so, in considering a genesis from       a singularity state, no triggering       mechanism can be positted and therefore,       a very absolute requirement for some       sort of concious being to speak things       into existance from nothing       at all is the consequence       with which you are stuck.                     so, backtracking from the atomic world..;              you have your little atom,       and you see it like a spring.              just like a little slinky.              the slinky is wah-wah-ing back and forth.              the wah-wah-ing is what's       giving you time space       and temperature.              that is, the vibrational qualities       of the spring carry the attributes       of time space and temperature.              now, you claim you'd like to visit       a 'place' where the spring is compressed       into a void of zero space.              fine, you crush the atomic spring       into an entirely different substance.              well, now that "stuff" has no spring qualities.              you can no longer cite springlike qualities       in regards to this -other- stuff with       any degree of certainty whatsever.              so, you can't speak of concepts like       "infinite heat content" and "infinite density"       with any reasonable understanding.              no, you have vanished those 'springlike'       qualities in favor of some -other-       set of qualities.              qualities that you can never fully realize       from within the constraints of       your "physical" reality.              that is, you have, first, provided the ultimate       necessity for a "substance" that has no 'physical'       reality and now you must divorce yourself from       making a 'physical' attribution upon this "stuff"       that has no springlike qualities.              you -can- convince yourself, quite readily,       that this "stuff" has no "beginning" but you       can not make this broad leap that the qualities       understood in the atomic reality apply, in any       fashion, to this "stuff" that has       no springlike qualities.              you can't even go so far as to suggest that       this "stuff" is "consumed" into becoming       the atomic material.              but you remain stuck citing       a "stuff" that isn't 'real'.              failing to do so it tantamount to lieing.              in crushing the spring out of the atom,              you have an entirely different 'substance'       which is alien to the physical material       composition to classify.              what you can not broadly assume is that       this 'immaterial-substance' has the springlike       attributes of time space and temperature       locked in a void "waiting" to burst forth.              you are not considering a loaded spring.              you are ceding 'substance' to the immaterial.              energy is not present in a non-atomic state.       no mass, no energy in the material sense.       no volume no gravity, no mass.       whatever is the composition of 'it'              gravitational potential energy is lost without mass.       electromagnetic energy is lost without atomic structure.       heat energy is lost without heat content.       atomic energy is lost without atomic structure.                     and you have no trigger to push over       any metastable teetering. what you have       is a definition of energy as an ability       to do work and generate heat,              outside of volume, no work       can be accomplished, and without       atomic vibrations, no heat       can be generated.              so, you cannot suggest that heat and work       were trapped, springloaded, in a singularity.       as heat and work -are- virtues of the material.              no trigger.              you can't just say;              "all energy was in the form       of heat and waiting to be       converted to work"              aside from matter you have no heat.              you need matter to generate heat.              without matter and without volume,       you have no heat or work potential.              those things come in to existance simultaneously.              i said;              "infinite heat capacity and       infinite density are unreal       concepts"              inasmuch as 'infinity'       is -not- a 'real' number.              infinity fails as a 'real' number       by additive identities,              1 plus infinity = infinity              infinity plus infinity = infinity                     any real number, when you add another       nmumber to it takes to the next successor       and does not return itself.              no real number, when added       to itself, returns itself.              infinity is a "non-real" 'mathematical' concept.              therefore, 'infinite heat capacity'       and 'infinite density' are       meaningless statements.              what you have is some non-material       with no forcework acting upon it       triggered by some intelligent Hand.              physically 'at rest' with       no forcework to jostle       anything material at all.              which is why i liken it       to a matter/energy 'generator'              you can't speak of 'it' being       'consumed' to produce the material.              and you can't demonstrate that 'it'       is not still just as available       'now' as it was 'then'              this immaterial 'device'       is employed by God and       Jesus made use of 'it'              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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