Posted on 07/27/2006 3:00:03 PM PDT by BrandtMichaels
Trivial? You think the creation of the universe and the creation of life is trivial? Let's see you do it.
God stated flatly that he is a jealous God and that you are to have no other gods beside him. You trivilize his creation as if it is something that could occur in the absence of any creator. You have made "mother nature" your God. You have made chance your God. You have made everything other than God your god. IOW you have placed the creation above the creator. You think He's ok with that?
Evolutionists and global warming advocates fear competition of ideas which is why they bristle at anyone challenging their ideas and demand that only their viewpoints be taught to children.
The Big Bang !
A day, without a yesterday !
It isn't just a matter of trivializing. It is the equivalent of shamelessly spitting in the face of someone who not only gave you life in the first place, but also saved your life.
As do Christians.
Christian and rational are not, IMO, mutually exclusive attributes. IMO, the leadership of most Christian religions have taken a rational position on the religion/science relationship.
No other gods before Him. Apparently He didn't mind sharing, He just didn't like being upstaged.
This of course brings up the fact that the Bible specifically states that there are other Gods...
Bad link.
demiurges...
Corrected downthread. And again here: http://www.talkorigins.org/indexcc/list.html
There is a complete lack of critical thinking in most people.
Evolutionists and global warming advocates fear competition of ideas which is why they bristle at anyone challenging their ideas and demand that only their viewpoints be taught to children.
We are talking about evolution here. And I'll repeat....there is not a competition of ideas regarding evolution... And what rational people fear from fanatical Creationists who try to force their ideas into high school science classes and into the law of the land is....
..ignorance and irrationality. Rational people fear the influence, advance, triumph, and tyranny of ignorance, for very good reasons. This is based on the history of human behavior under the influence of ignorance, superstition, irrational fear, and religious fanaticism.
What's a "Darwinist?" Outside of the Creationist/ID community it is not used.
But Gods nonetheless...
Yes and of course God guided the content of the Bible from the thousand and thousands of manuscripts of the time?
"and what IF....the origin of life IS a designer which is untestable by human science?
What if?"
Then said designer is outside the realm of science and should not be taught in a science classroom, any more than the claim that invisible unicorns hold up the clouds.
"Has science no interest in this possibility?"
Scientists are not interested (rightly so, too) in untestable claims. Anybody can make an untestable claim.
"To deny it as a possibility ... is quite limiting. Don't you think?"
It's not denied as a possibility. It's denied as being testable and having any value in the pursuit of knowledge.
"This is my definition of open mindedness."
Good for you.
"This is where scientists who are willing to be open to all possibilities (ID) seem to be taking the lead, especially via discoveries in cosmology."
ID, being an untestable claim, is not leading to any new knowledge.
I was fooled by your use of only Creationist language in your posts.
"Trivial? You think the creation of the universe and the creation of life is trivial? Let's see you do it."
What should be trivial for such a powerful being is whether we fully understand that creation. To be so offended that he sentences us to eternal torment because we get it wrong is not the sign of a wise, understanding God but of a whiny adolescent.
"God stated flatly that he is a jealous God and that you are to have no other gods beside him."
See above about whiny adolescents...
um... hate to say this, but that is by far their prevailing belief...
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