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Old 12-18-2010, 02:52 AM   #680 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mayflow View Post
Destruction and Creation are imaginative enterprises, but pretty much all science can prove and not disprove the law of of the conservation of energy which is to say that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed but merely redistrubuted. That still allows for infinity of course!
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