From: "Tim" 
Newsgroups: uk.legal uk.finance
Subject: Re: Lottery syndicate - is this guy breaking any laws?
Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 13:50:59 -0000

>> > "Tim" wrote:
>> >> Would you care to suggest anything at all
>> >> that has actually happened (at any time) in the
>> >> past, which you think that it would have been
>> >> impossible to have been imagined beforehand?
>> >
>> "johannes" wrote
>> > Probably many things, but I don't want to give you ammunition ;-)
>>
> "Tim" wrote:
>> I respectfully suggest that *anything* that has & can happen *is*
>> capable of being imagined, even before it has ever happened.
>> I await evidence to the contrary...   ;-)
>
"johannes" wrote
> Big Bang?

That was certainly "capable of being imagined".  We
can now only "imagine" that it actually happened anyway
- we have no direct evidence that it definitely *did*!

I guess your next question will be "who imagined it?" !
Well, (obviously) the answer is "God and/or the intelligent life
forms existing between the previous 'Big Bang' and 'Big Crunch'."

But anyway, you don't need a "conciousness capable of
thought" to exist, for something to be "capable of being
imagined".  You just need it to be something that, if you
put a "conciousness capable of thought" there at that time,
it would be able to imagine it.  [In other words, the lack of
the "conciousness capable of thought" does *not* make the
probability zero for the thing "capable of being imagined"!]