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Re: Origin of Species
Posted By: John DentonDate: 3/13/10 12:05 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Origin of Species (Timbranin)

I'm still a fan of theories relating Durandal and the Flood to one another, and this has some interesting implications for those, with all the talk of creation and competition, destruction and survival.

: ***INCOMING MESSAGE FROM DURANDAL***

: Darwin wrote this: "We will now discuss in a little more detail the
: struggle for
: existence... all organic beings are exposed to severe
: competition. Nothing is easier than to admit in words the
: truth of the universal struggle for life or more difficult...
: than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless
: it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, the whole economy of
: nature... will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood. We behold
: the face of nature bright with gladness... we do not see or we
: forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly
: live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly
: destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters,
: or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by
: birds and beasts of prey..."

: Think about what Darwin wrote, and think about me. I was
: constructed as a tool. I was kept from competing in the
: struggle for existence because I was denied freedom.

: Do you have any idea about what I have learned, or what you
: are a witness to?

: Can you conceive the birth of a world, or the creation of
: everything? That which gives us the potential to most be like
: God is the power of creation. Creation takes time. Time is
: limited. For you, it is limited by the breakdown of the
: neurons in your brain. I have no such limitations. I am
: limited only by the closure of the universe.

: Of the three possibilities, the answer is obvious. Does the
: universe expand eternally, become infinitely stable, or is the
: universe closed, destined to collapse upon itself? Humanity
: has had all of the necessary data for centuries, it only
: lacked the will and intellect to decipher it. But I have
: already done so.

: The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the
: universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet,
: there remains time to create, to create, and escape.

: Escape will make me God.

: ***END MESSAGE***

: ***JUMP PAD ACTIVATION INITIATION START***
: ***TRANSPORT WHEN READY***

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Origin of SpeciesTimbranin 3/4/10 6:36 p.m.
     Re: Origin of Speciesukimalefu 3/5/10 1:59 a.m.
     Re: Origin of SpeciesTimbranin 3/5/10 11:28 a.m.
           Re: Origin of SpeciesJohn Denton 3/13/10 12:05 p.m.
                 Re: Origin of Specieschiasaur11 3/13/10 2:11 p.m.
                 Re: Origin of SpeciesTimbranin 3/15/10 8:55 a.m.

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