How little we are...

First of, if you don't believe in the Bing Bang and Evolution, skip this thread and go to the next one.  This is not meant as a religious debate. Open your Adam and Eve thread and I promise not to butt in it.

I'm serious...

Now, I'm sure a lot of you have already heard of the cosmic calendar, but it still amazes me to think how little we are in the history of the universe. Basically if we condensed all the history of the universe into one single year, where the Bing Bang happened one the first second of January 1st and today being midnight sharp on 31st December, all our known history only happened in the last 15 seconds. Wow...

Check this link out for more details: here.


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Wow! So little time ... so much universe.
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Bing Bang


...Big Bang Paxx. Big bang

....you didn't move to Texas by chance, did ya????????
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This is a cool article.
It kind of makes me wonder on what micro second before midnight was I born
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Well, I'll make you feel better...it was minutes after I was hatched
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  And I wrote it twice, stupid!

I SAY Big Bang, don't know why my fingers wrote BING BANG. LMAO.  Thanks for the correction.

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First of, if you don't believe in the Bing Bang and Evolution


1st, a niggle: The big bang and evolution are scientific theories. There's no call to "believe in" them as such - you evaluate the evidence and make a reasoned decision as to the credibility (or not) of the theory.

A question: what actually constitutes "all our known history" as you mention? Once we know this we can work out our own lifetimes in relation to the 15 sec!




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I think it's all a Government conspricy....I don't think there is a Universe
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Thank you Gary, that does makes me feel better
Hey, looking at the December calendar I just noticed that acording to the dates events, the 1st dinosaurs appeared on Dec 24. Now isnt that a nice x-mas present?
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.... ...yeah, I can just see that under the tree....T-Rex-in-a-Box.






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How little we are, but how tall we stand!
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...it always helps me to put my *HUGE* (not ) problems by reading stuff like that... it is a good perspective.
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Just one question, If we all came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? Shouldnt they have evolved also?
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/me isn't touching this one..
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Big Bang... 15 seconds... Did my wife write this article?


Um, I mean did my friend's wife write this article?
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WTF? paxx you looking over my shoulder today, or what?
I was watching the very first episode of Cosmos, today and have the second episode in right now. I am doing a Sagan / Cosmos Marathon.
I had to explain to my wife that the SETI proggy she runs, was a direct decendent of Carls, establishing SETI Program, and also let her know He wrote, Contact and Broca's Brain, and also how ground breaking the Astrophysics for the Masses "Cosmos" was for the Average Joe, in the 80's.
This is just to damn creepy. To bad old Carl died, he will be missed and I am sure He would have a thing or two to say to Hawking about his latest Theories on Black holes and Uncoherant / Unorganized Mass.
I happen to like the Cosmic Foam, ideas as well as String theory.
Being a True Scifi, Fan I eat this type of stuff up.
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Just one question, If we all came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? Shouldnt they have evolved also?


AFAICR, the thinking is that monkeys and humans both evolved (in different directions) from a common ancestor: the so-called 'missing link'. We're two branches off the same stem.

HTH



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by paxx - 8/1/2004 10:23:45 PM
First of, if you don't believe in the Bing Bang and Evolution, skip this thread and go to the next one. This is not meant as a religious debate. Open your Adam and Eve thread and I promise not to butt in it.

I'm serious...



#12 by TYBSP - 8/2/2004 12:01:13 AM Just one question, If we all came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys? Shouldnt they have evolved also?


I've a question also... Why?

I know you read and comprehend what paxx stated in the above quote from the very first start of this thread. So, again, Why?



read... if you are of mind to..

http://hpgl.stanford.edu/publications.html

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=000BF62C-0C21-1CD0-B4A8809EC588EEDF

http://www.dnafiles.org/resources/res05.html

http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/H/humanevo.html



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Monkeys could see into the future...it was either get a job or get eaten by lions....
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@ Yrag and IR

Damit IR, looks like I have chosen the wrong way, with my job it sure is better to be eaten by lions

intresting article tought...
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And Roy of Siegfried & Roy tried to combine the two.
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And Roy of Siegfried & Roy tried to combine the two.


Proof! I say this is proof that Humans are the most intelligent of all they purvey. hehehe



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And yet, everyone thinks all of existence focuses on him or herself.

'Sides, "how little we are": on a cosmic scale we fall through the atoms.
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IPlural
My answer to your question is this:
There are Holes permeating the idea of evolution just as evolutionists feel that there are holes in the Adam and Eve theory. The Idea of a Big Bang works for both beliefs. Was all matter balled up in one big ball and then it exploded on its own or was there some intervention. The original thread from paxx stated if you dont believe in the Big Bang and Evolution then it was not for you. Well in a sense, I do believe in both but not in the sense that I came from a friggen monkey. I certainly did not discuss religion, I simply put out a question that was meant to gain an understanding as to why a person can actually believe they came from a monkey.

The Big Bang is a believable theory IMO and an interesting discussion point.
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I'll quote it once again for those that missed it the first two times.

First of, if you don't believe in the Bing Bang and Evolution, skip this thread and go to the next one. This is not meant as a religious debate. Open your Adam and Eve thread and I promise not to butt in it.I'm serious



Start your own thread and leave this one for paxx.