Yes. To explain how gravitational, electrical and nuclear forces all come from the same thing. At least that is the hope. I think it will take a bit more thinking outside the box even if the particle is isolated. It is already stupid hard to imagine the bending of space and the flexibility of time. What kind of unperceived next dimension is going to make this all come together? Will it be impossible to express it as a formula? Will it be a simple stupid formula with a very complex explanation? Is it futile?

Praying to a zombie who was sometimes nice and sometimes a dick who acted as if he was sacrificing something is rational?

I'm torn as to a unified theory. Part of me thinks it's just around the corner and will be explained in our lifetime due to the amazing advances in cosmo. the last 50 years. But part of me thinks we are just getting the smallest glimpse and are miles from even slightly grasping at a unified theory. All conjecture on my part.

Ahhh collective mental illness known as religion.

Agreed. Part of me though hopes they never figure it out as to me it's all about the journey the quest for knowledge and finding new things, if they do find a theory of everything is that it? is that all there is? What would they do with it?

But the few facts we have in Genesis have never been refuted. In fact, science has only confirmed Genesis repeatedly!

Were Adam and Eve Cro.Magnons or Neanderthals? I've always wondered that.

I was really hoping to learn something on this thread about the Higgs Boson, but instead it was instantly derailed by somebody who just *had* to insert some jackass anti-religion remarks. OK, look, we get it: You think religion is stupid. Now, can we move on and not have you hijack every scientific thread out there with your opinion?

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I thought it was a pretty simple question. Were Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis Neanderthals, Cro-magnons, homo Sapiens, or something else?

Dunno. We don't have their dna specifically. All we have is a sketch of what they said, thought, and did during a short span in the Garden. We do know God conjured Adam from the dust of the earth and made him chief of all animals before the Fall. One thing we know of humans now is that we can outrun all animals on earth according to "Born to Run", ie we outrun horses after about 25 miles and cheetahs overheat and lay in the grass after very short bursts of speed. If we are animals, we are chief of all animals at the very least, as the Bible describes.

Not to mention, we have creativity and musings that other animals don't have (or at least can't write or depict). We build hospitals, ponder the afterlife, creatively write about things we've never actually seen. There is a huge gap in intellect and spirit from human down to the next critter. In short, we are made in God's image, unlike any other animal. To say we are animals is only a partially true description. We are much more than any other animal on earth. What were Adam and Eve? As human as we are now at the very least. What did they look like? I really have no clue.

Dunno. We don't have their dna specifically. All we have is a sketch of what they said, thought, and did during a short span in the Garden. We do know God conjured Adam from the dust of the earth and made him chief of all animals before the Fall. One thing we know of humans now is that we can outrun all animals on earth according to "Born to Run", ie we outrun horses after about 25 miles and cheetahs overheat and lay in the grass after very short bursts of speed. If we are animals, we are chief of all animals at the very least, as the Bible describes.

Not to mention, we have creativity and musings that other animals don't have (or at least can't write or depict). We build hospitals, ponder the afterlife, creatively write about things we've never actually seen. There is a huge gap in intellect and spirit from human down to the next critter. In short, we are made in God's image, unlike any other animal. To say we are animals is only a partially true description. We are much more than any other animal on earth. What were Adam and Eve? As human as we are now at the very least. What did they look like? I really have no clue.

Can't we just get back to talking about Lance?

We may be able to run for a sustained period longer than most animals, but we can not "out run" every animal. Early humans were most certainly persistence hunters, but that does not mean that they could out run a crocodile, lion or other top predator if it was chasing them.

So, as you state Adam and Eve were human, presumably Cain, Abel and Seth were also human. Cain killed Abel, so we're left with Adam, Cain, Seth and Eve. Sooo, fast forward 6000 years ( not my number, presumably yours ), where did the other 7 billion of us come from if we are all descendants of Adam, Cain, Seth and Eve? Must have been some serious incest going on there for a few generations...

"There is a huge gap in intellect and spirit from human down to the next critter" is there? Prove it. And what is the "next critter"?

Why does the maker of heaven and earth need you to defend him every time some one takes a jab? I'm pretty sure he can take care of himself. At some point, it seems to be less about you glorifying god and more about your human desire to be right. Why not just let it go? Has anyone's decision on faith really been influenced by the endless threads on slowtwitch? Can't we just get back to talking about Lance?

. And we do have Eve's DNA, all of us, and it points to a woman about 200,000 years ago.
We can't outrun pronghorns over any distance, so there goes that conceit.

Has anyone's decision on faith really been influenced by the endless threads on slowtwitch?

Some major supernatural events before our eyes- that could only be done by a highly advanced being. Some real proof that prayer actually works miracles, and that evil is punished. And I want some answers about all the death, destruction and suffering going on in this world.