Regarding Evolution, Time, and Money

[zbdent]

Thinking about how Religious types talk about the age of the Earth and evolution (especially when they talk about how there really hasn't been any evolution lately ... a process that takes place radically only over extremely long periods of time, not just a couple of hundred years ...)

I'm reminded of an old joke (maybe a song?) ...

A man asks God, "What is a million years to you?"

God answers, "A second."

The man then asks, "What is a million dollars to you?"

God answers, "A penny."

The man pauses for a minute, and then asks, "God, may I have a penny?"

God answers, "Sure ... in a second ..."



So, if a million years, to God, is a second, then what was God doing all those millions and billions of years before the 15 or so thousands of years before "creating the Heavens and the Earth"?

[Evoman]

1. Doing what most guys do with their free time.

Masterbating.

[Goblinmonger]

2. Who was he thinking about?

Aphrodite?

[Evoman]

6. Yeah...she was hot.

I'd totally do her.

[moggie]

3. Why would God have a dick?

It's not like he has any use for it.

[PreacherCasey]

4. Sure he does,

that's how he spreads "dark matter" throughout the universe.

[zbdent]

5. Maybe you're thinking of another

orifice ...

[thingfisher]

7. So, if a million years,

to God, is a second, then what was God doing all those millions and billions of years before the 15 or so thousands of years before "creating the Heavens and the Earth"?

This is a question that none other than Stephen Hawking is trying to answer, only he posits it a litle diffrently. What existed before the big bang? Now that's a tough one to answer since all the laws of physics as we know them cease to operate the closer to the big bang in time you get since space-time- matter are undifferentiated. So if the tools we use to think about physics cease to operate how do we even manage to think about it in a scientific way?