I think the universe is flat.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html
I think the universe is flat.
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Try nabbing a bear cub from every bear species, polar, black, grizzley, ect, and if you have any limbs left then go get a young lion, tiger, cheetah, panther, ect. Good luck. I think getting two baby dinosaurs of every dinosaur species would be a task immeasurably more daunting than even that. Actually it would be impossible, since we know that dinosaurs went extinct long before man first drew breath.
And I don't see how he would even know whether he'd gotten every species. The science of taxonomy was crude if not non-existent back then.
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Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
He thought many things.
And I can't help but notice Bien has decided to just ignore how everyone pointed out that his wonderful piece of "evidence" was a fake. I think this would apply nicely to Bien himself:
That was added while I was writing. It's just hilarious. Speak for yourself, Bien.
Noah would have had to have ventured to the North and South poles, deep into the Amazonian rainforest, down to Patagonia, way over to the Galapagos Islands. And, assuming he somehow knew he'd gotten them all, he'd have had to have gone back and released them back into their native habitats. You'd think there might be some mention of these vast distant lands somewhere in the bible.
Edit: It appears that the bible says the animals "came unto Noah." Which means, I suppose, that God somehow commanded them to converge upon ancient Israel. Polar bears, mountain gorillas, kangaroos.... all migrated across continents, compelled by God, and embarked upon Noah's boat upon which they rode out the storm. In a world-view wherein nothing is impossible, I guess not even that is impossible. And since all things are possible with God, it would seem that once you're made the choice to believe in Him you can believe just about anything. Fair enough.
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Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
Bah - and I believed in fairies.
Yet I don't think that accounts for thoughts or the mind. The potassium and sodium etc etc - are the vehicles for thoughts to arise not the thoughts themseves. You said it yourself - if those conditions aren't there, then there is no thought manifesting.
There may be no magical abstractions - though I never mentioned magic - but you have this magical analogy of hard drives. I don't think science can account for the mind or thoughts, though they can see the process of the meat machine better these days. Or am I wrong?
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