Maybe Noah was a Cro Magnon man whose ancestry survived another climate change 12000 years ago plus the great flood. just kidding.
conversations are fluid, are they not? they lead to things. To other points. Debates, clarification. This is what keeps things going and gives us all an understanding of how the other views the world. even if we don’t agree we can at least respect that on the board, even if in the back of your mind, you think, this person is clueless. Perhaps it will bring about more understanding too.
Suffice it to say, I almost completely agree with Irminsul. Human history is shrouded in mystery and it's completely premature to think we know all the facts. There are enough stories of a cataclysmic flood to convince me of that. The erosion on the Sphynx is definitely caused by water as well. My hunch is that there were civilizations prior to what we know as the dawn of civilization.
it is even premature to say life began in a geographical location. It is all uncertain until the entire world is dug up and destroyed
Matter and energy are equivalent called stuff. Time and space are dimensions energy and matter move through called places.
"Stuff"? That's an explanation of what matter essentially is? The truth is that there is no answer to these questions.
The only problem is you haven't defined what these things essentially are. And you can't possibly from the perspective of one who exists in three dimensions. Are leptons abstract? Are they mundane? You don't know. And there can be no assertion. Matter is fundamentally a mystery. As is life. As is everything