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Originally Posted by bilbo_baggins

Why is time short? As one of your admired scientists proclaimed, "Time is relative, and no man can understand it."

Sorry that you've so misunderstood me. Time is short as I have a life that involves three little children who continually are increasing local entropy .

Truly, you make a comment and assume that Time is short. But why? Is it not of the utmost importance that your very view on whether time is short be reconciled to yourself? Do you really believe that everything one has told you concerning findings is accurate?

Nope; thought that I stated that.

You mock me when you depict yourself an imagining butterfly. Who is to say you really exist? Do you reconcile yourself to the fate that your eyes see something, and therefore you are there? Or hear yourself speaking, and therefore you must be able to communicate? Do you find a piece of evidence as Chicken Little did, and proclaim with all self-sincerity that the sky is falling? Or that there is no God?

My intent was never to mock you, and apologies if it seemed that way . I was actually quoting an old friend who always said the same. And not sure about the rest of that, but absence of evidence is not evidence.

All thought and all reason points to the simple fact that an outside intelligence acts and makes us assume that we ourselves exist, and not only that, but that our fellow man exists. And that Time is slipping by. That there is learning that has been made by great men of olden days.

If you believe so. I agree that we all stand on the shoulders of giants.

For man to have survived the trials of life, and survived the five or six thousand years we all agree have occured, then there must have been someway to have foreknowledge of what paths to take, and what trains of thought to wander, and what ideas to defend. How did our ancestors make themselves self-aware if not by God? How did they assume that their neighbors were real if someone didn't tell them. I can recall to mind a little girl asking her father if the animals in the zoo were really there. Or a little boy asking why the sky is blue.

Not exactly sure what you mean, but my presumption is that we evolved to be as we are now. Those that made poor choices did not continue into the next generation. As stated recently, there is information regarding how a belief system imparts a survival advantage.

Maybe we'd better wander back on topic as I would assume that you and I will not agree. Thanks for your replies.