Mod Idea: Simulating surfaces -> Borg Technology -> Twinkie Physics -> Worldviews

[dogscoff]

Personally I don't see how it could be used to support the Eden paradigm since it would have a negligible effect on our time frame.

Well... some guy had been through the bible, counted up all the "begats" since Adam and Eve and decided that the universe was just a few thousand years old. Then a bunch of scientists said "but what about all the stuff on Earth that can be proved to be millions and millions of years old and all the distant stars and stuff we can see that are billions of years old and the big bang blah blah blah." Rather than just say "Oh I don't believe in all that", the creationist guy then goes on to try and fit the entire history of the universe into the few thousand years. He tried it by suggesting that universal constants like C have been changing rapidly, so that galaxies which appears to be millions of light years away are in fact just up the street... Nutter. Anyway, by the time he had finished turning physics inside out, the garden of eden would have been a superheated inferno where no matter- let alone life- could have existed. It really was too bizarre to be true, and extremely funny. I'll have a dig aroud for the link.

Oh, and I'm sure lots of credible physicists do believe C is changing, and I'm not necessarily associating their arguments to the one I mention above. That's just the only time I had heard of such a theory before reading this thread.

Here's a link to sum up my beliefs on the subject. Look at the very bottom track. (Parental advisory)