re: How old is Earth?

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Typical. You can’t come up with any reply of substance to counter my post so instead you lower yourself to sophomoric and petty lame attempts at insulting my intelligence.

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why do you always do this?

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Meanwhile, using "there must be a start" to it all therefore God, ignores the the irony that "God" would presumably have no starting point either.

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I think that is his question. The absence of a source/beginning doesn't make sense from our human material world understanding about space/time/matter (i.e. can't create something from nothing) so is the source/beginning something supernatural that actually never wasn't? Seems unanswerable from science thus far.

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why do you always do this?

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Because you always do what you do. Namely you disagree with sosmwthing I say and instead of coming up with a logical response you reply with passive-aggressive insults at my intelligence. I’d respect you more if you actually debated something we disagree on based on some sort of intelligent thought other than repededly posting this and making snarky remarks disregarding anything I say without ever bothering to say anything of substance. It’s a cop out.

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My whole point has been the currently popular answer of the Big Bang being the start to it all, isn’t logical in my opinion.

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Unless I'm mistaken, I don't think people are saying the Big Bang is the answer to this

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r what was it that existed

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But is the answer to this

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what caused it to become all the matter that exists in the universe from the beginning to this day.

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I’m trying to have an intelligent conversation,

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Apparently you are stupid and your attempt was going to be a failure no matter what. Some people, like you, are just born losers.

On a related note:

I've always found it impossible to imagine NOTHING. Is it even possible for nothing to exist? The human mindset is to assume there was a beginning because we watch the rearrangement of energy on a daily basis and imagine it as birth. But, I'm inclined to believe there was always something. I think that's as plausible as there ever having been nothing. Energy exists, and always has (my thinking, not fact) and it just perpetually changes.

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Haha no I’m serious. I’m just curious as to what people think.

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Why don't you science bro?

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Every thousand years
This metal sphere
Ten times the size of Jupiter
Floats just a few yards past the earth
You climb on your roof
And take a swipe at it
With a single feather
Hit it once every thousand years
'Til you've worn it down
To the size of a pea
Yeah I'd say that's a long time
But it's only half a blink
In the place you're gonna be

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Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...

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The statement was to illustrate that for something to exist it has to be created. And you can’t create something from nothing. Everything in this universe, every atom, had to be created from something that already existed. All I’ve done is to wonder what was it that existed and what caused it to become all the matter that exists in the universe from the beginning to this day.

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Again...this is a contradiction.

You claim everything must have a first cause...except for whatever that first cause was.

It's just special pleading.

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This question has been asked since the dawn of conscious thought.

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Not for very long, because it doesn't take much reasoning to see the circular argument. As soon as you realize it can't be made without deciding that your infinite regression eventually has to stop at some point you must conclude that if ONE thing is outside of the argument (all things have a cause) then ALL things could exist without a cause.

The only "out" is to ignore the original premise in favor of that one thing that doesn't fit your original parameters.