Hi y'all - please don't post tomorrow's submission and advise Perry that I have a solution to his/her email that involves a spray bottle, a hydraulic ram, a sphincter ring and N to the power 10 with 23 zeros buckets of soapy water.
On Dec 9, 9:35 am, CrossBow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I've been getting these updated emails (as an experiment) and they > are starting to really show how the creationist movement is > progressing...sneaky tweaky... > > I have to unsubscribe soon from this pseudoscience, or I will reach critical > mass, after which I will explode from trying to contain too much stupid and > spew rediculousness all the way to Betelguese! > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Perry Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:19 AM > Subject: Where did the Universe Come From? Part 3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Where did the Universe come from? > Part 3: Why the Big Bang was the most precisely planned > event in all of history > > Crossbow, > > In your kitchen cabinet, you've probably got a spray > bottle with an adjustable nozzle. If you twist the nozzle > one way, it sprays a fine mist into the air. You twist > the nozzle the other way, it squirts a jet of water > in a straight line. You turn that nozzle to the exact > position you want so you can wash a mirror, clean up > a spill, or whatever. > > If the universe had expanded a little faster, the > matter would have sprayed out into space like fine > mist from a water bottle - so fast that a gazillion > particles of dust would speed into infinity and never even > form a single star. > > If the universe had expanded just a little slower, the > material would have dribbled out like big drops of water, > then collapsed back where it came from by the force > of gravity. > > A little too fast, and you get a meaningless > spray of fine dust. A little too slow, and the whole > universe collapses back into one big black hole. > > The surprising thing is just how narrow the difference > is. To strike the perfect balance between too fast and > too slow, the force, something that physicists call > "the Dark Energy Term" had to be accurate to one part in > ten with 120 zeros. > > If you wrote this as a decimal, the number would > look like this: > > 0.000000000000000000000000000000 > 00000000000000000000000000000000 > 00000000000000000000000000000000 > 0000000000000000000000000000001 > > In their paper "Disturbing Implications of > a Cosmological Constant" two atheist scientists > from Stanford University stated that the existence of > this dark energy term would have required a miracle... > "An unknown agent" intervened in cosmic history > "for reasons of its own." > > Just for comparison, the best human engineering > example is the Gravity Wave Telescope, which was built with > a precision of 23 zeros. The Designer, the 'external > agent' that caused our universe must possess an intellect, > knowledge, creativity and power trillions and trillions > of times greater than we humans have. > > Absolutely amazing. > > Now a person who doesn't believe in God has to find > some way to explain this. One of the more common explanations > seems to be "There was an infinite number of universes, so it > was inevitable that things would have turned out right > in at least one of them." > > The "infinite universes" theory is truly an amazing theory. > Just think about it, if there is an infinite number of > universes, then absolutely everything is not only possible... > It's actually happened! > > It means that somewhere, in some dimension, there is > a universe where the Chicago Cubs won the World Series last > year. There's a universe where Jimmy Hoffa doesn't get > cement shoes; instead he marries Joan Rivers and becomes > President of the United States. There's even a > universe where Elvis kicks his drug habit and still > resides at Graceland and sings at concerts. Imagine > the possibilities! > > I might sound like I'm joking, but actually I'm dead > serious. To believe an infinite number of universes > made life possible by random chance is to believe everything > else I just said, too. > > Some people believe in God with a capital G. > > And some folks believe in Chance with a Capital C. > > Tomorrow's installment: "If you can read this email, > I can prove to you that God exists." Sound a little bold? > Tune in tomorrow - same time, same station. > > Respectfully Submitted, > > Perry Marshall > > Cosmic Fingerprints, 67 East Algonquin Road, S. Barrington IL 60010 USA > > To unsubscribe or change subscriber options > visit:http://www.aweber.com/z/r/?TEycHMystCwsTOzsrByctGa0jBxsLOyM > > -- > gnothe se auton- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
