Tree/forest Question...(was Re: Can God...)

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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Clifton <woodrow_@geocities.com> writes:

    Bill> One needs to clarify what sound is, as opposed to
    Bill> energy. The tree falls and energy is translated into
    Bill> compression waves in the ground and air.  Depending on the
    Bill> amount of energy imparted into the medium and the rate of
    Bill> disapation the waves will travel a given distance. If there
    Bill> is nothing there to translate this energy back to an audible
    Bill> input then "sound" was not produced. The energy was
    Bill> produced, the potnetial was there, but sound is not the
    Bill> energy wave in air but the responce of an organism to this
    Bill> energy. So the answer is no sound was produced only energy.

Wrong again, Batman!

If sound is "the responce of an organism", then me holding my ears is
"sound", not the heavy metal rock music coming out of the car next to
me.  Somehow, this does not seem quite right to me...

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