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[leicsmac]

So in conclusion I think it's safe to say no one knows a fvcking thing about the meaning of life if indeed there is one. No one has come up with any irrecusable evidence and your all pissing in the dark. Please correct me if I am am wrong on any one of those statements.

As regards the big questions, you're absolutely right. How the Big Bang came about, how life actually became sentient and self-perpetuating and how Peter Taylor was ever considered to be a good manager are three big questions we can only really theorise about. We do have something of a bead on the smaller stuff though.

That said, that's the essence of science: you can't prove anything to be absolutely, totally, unequivocally 100% certain: you just theorise what will happen in a particular situation, check that the theory works practically in a real-life situation by gathering evidence and then repeat until a new theory comes along which changes the understanding of the situation somewhat. That's what I like about science: it's dynamic! That's one of the big differences between it and organised religious dogma, come to that.

Not meaning to detract from the rest of your post which is a good one, the idea that time is a human construct is a widely held belief which really annoys me. We didn't invent time. Our arbitrary units of measurement for time are man-made, but the phenomenon itself is no more man-made than gravity.

Yeah, I should have made myself clearer on that one. I meant that we invented the measurement of time in order to categorise events. Time flows of course (and would do so without us) but the idea of past, present and future is a human thing.

[Captain...]

So in conclusion I think it's safe to say no one knows a fvcking thing about the meaning of life if indeed there is one. No one has come up with any irrecusable evidence and your all pissing in the dark. Please correct me if I am am wrong on any one of those statements.

My life has meaning, but like everything else discussed on this thread it is a self given reason. I disagree with boxing foxes though, time as we understand and as we observe is a human construct, there may be creatures and species that experience time in a completely different way to us, that can experience and feel and travel through the fourth dimension as easily as we can the third, and maybe even transcend higher dimensions, can experience the universe being born, growing and dying all at the same time, that can see our basic lives are predetermined, mapped out and unchangeable, or can experience all minute changes and variations of life in the same instant.

Everything we think we know and understand is a human construct as it is from the perspective of a human and as we think we know from quantum physics, that properties can change based on observation.

[flowwolf]

But nature has a time scale , night and day the seasons the tides all governed by periods of time it's just that we have put numbers to it.

[Rincewind]

The night, day and seasons are caused by a scientific process as we know it. I suppose there may be dimensions and occurrences we do not know about.