Re: [asa] Time: God vs. Science

On 11/6/06, philtill@aol.com <philtill@aol.com> wrote:
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>
> I think Mark Twain used a similar argument, that the duration of the
> earth and its biological record compared to the duration of man shows that
> man is totally negligible in the big picture. I think it was he who also
> said that the thin layer of paint on top of the Eiffel Tower isn't the
> reason the entire tower exists. But one of the fallacies in these arguments
> is that they presume to know how long man will endure. If man lasts
> eternally, then everything reverses: it is the duration of biology on the
> Earth that becomes negligible relative to the duration of man, and not vice
> versa.
>
> Of course an even better answer is that God certainly have any need to
> measure the value of something by how long it endures in time. That is
> simply reflecting human limitations upon God.
>

Indeed, the widow's mite illustrates rather well that God doesn't measure
things in the same way that we do.
Iain

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