Big Bang Disputed

You're absolutely, perfectly right in this statement. We're merely quibbling over the details.

 

You're absolutely, perfectly right in this statement. We're merely quibbling over the details. </font>[/QUOTE]Who's "quibbling?"

God certainly isn't.

 

OK Jc, merely extrapolate the appropriate plural reference for the "we" in "we're merely quibbling" and you'll have you answer.

 

Why quibble about the creation of new species? Either Goddidit or evolutionary processes did.

 

Now this is different than the answer you gave on the other two threads last night. In those threads you indicated that it could be both. Which is the right answer. God created the new species through evolutionary processes which He authored the rules for and uses as part of His will and plan.

 

The "right" answer depends on which theories of information, design, epistomology and theology one subcribes to, no?

 

For Gina

You were asking earlier about dark matter... Currently no one knows what it is, but I came across something recently you might find interesting. A leading candidate is something called supersymmetric particles. Explaining just what these are is well beyond my ability, but the short answer is that they are particles related to the familiar particles but with a different quantum characteristic called spin. They are also much heavier.

Current speculation favors the photino (the supersymmetric particle of the photon) or the zino or higgsino (supersymmetric particles of the particle that carries the weak nuclear force and Higgs field respectively).

Interestingly, calculations of how many and at what mass such particles should have been produced during inflation match calculations from the standard model of particle physics and from string theory have all combined on the same range from different methods.

The Large Hadron Collider under construction will be able to probe this region for the first time to see if the predictions match reality. Though we cannot say for sure, now, what dark matter is, there is a chance we will find it in the next 10 years or so.

 

No, there was no Universe before the Big Bang, therefore no time. Time is a property of an expanding (or contracting) universe.

Just nothing before: no time, no space, no universe.