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Just to clear up (hopefully) the whole evolution/bigbang thing ...

It is true that theories are just that - essentially well-educated (usually) guesses that may or may not be true. The Big Bang THEORY is an example of that - it is certainly not fact.

However, although evolution is called "The Theory of Evolution", this is misleading. When Darwin first proposed the idea, indeed it WAS a theory then. Since then, however, it has been proved dozens if not hundreds of times. The only reason it is still called a theory is because that phrase caught on.

In terms of space and time, I always thought it to be the opposite - not that time created space but rather that space creates time. Time is basically just a measure of change. When somethine changes, there needs to be some way of measuring the time in between. However, space and matter could theoretically exist without time, if they remained totally static and did not change at all.

In other words ... TIME = CHANGE

or at least that's how i see it.

01-17-2003, 08:34 PM	#22
aeternus0 Level 4 - Thinker Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 23 Bincount™: 0	A couple of things.... Just to clear up (hopefully) the whole evolution/bigbang thing ... It is true that theories are just that - essentially well-educated (usually) guesses that may or may not be true. The Big Bang THEORY is an example of that - it is certainly not fact. However, although evolution is called "The Theory of Evolution", this is misleading. When Darwin first proposed the idea, indeed it WAS a theory then. Since then, however, it has been proved dozens if not hundreds of times. The only reason it is still called a theory is because that phrase caught on. In terms of space and time, I always thought it to be the opposite - not that time created space but rather that space creates time. Time is basically just a measure of change. When somethine changes, there needs to be some way of measuring the time in between. However, space and matter could theoretically exist without time, if they remained totally static and did not change at all. In other words ... TIME = CHANGE or at least that's how i see it.
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