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To: FeeinTennessee
Evolution is in stark contrast with the belief in God.

That's going to come as a big surprise to the millions of Americans who believe in both.

You either believe that God created the heavens and the earth, or you believe you evolved from monkeys

...or you believe that the latter is the method by which He accomplished part of the former results...

Look up "false dichotomy" sometime.

and the universe just EXPLODED

The "Big Bang" has nothing to do with an actual "explosion". Try to learn some physics before you attempt to critique it, and don't just jump to incorrect conclusions based on the name.

and came together to form that wonderful galaxy out there, planets aligned so neatly, everything in order.

The laws of physics naturally result in several kinds of order arising. Did you have some sort of point?

That indicates there was a creator,

No it doesn't.

Once you learn more about how natural processes interact, you become more aware of how they cause interesting things to come about, and the less you find yourself relying on lines of reasoning like, "well *I* can't imagine how this could have happened, so it *must* have been the result of some invisible guy in the sky whipping it up on his drawing board..."

how can one look around and see such beauty and not realize that some higher power put it there?

"Higher power" is not necessarily equivalent to "a supernatural intelligence".

38 posted on 11/07/2005 12:30:25 PM PST by Ichneumon
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To: Ichneumon
That's going to come as a big surprise to the millions of Americans who believe in both.

You seem to fancy yourself a scientifically sophisticated individual. However, you refuse to use the same standards of inquiry to determine the truth regarding Christianity. The only documentary evidence that is respected by all Christians is the Holy Bible.

For some reason you have decided to side with individuals who contradict the documentary evidence that they are claiming to believe. This, in itself, exposes your agenda is not a desire to seek the truth, but to willfully believe only what is right in your own mind.

The "Big Bang" has nothing to do with an actual "explosion". Try to learn some physics before you attempt to critique it, and don't just jump to incorrect conclusions based on the name.

Take some of your free time to determine if differing interpretations of the documentary evidence in the scriptures is the reason for the disparity of opinion regarding what the Bible says happened. You will quickly conclude that people who believe Biblical Theism and Evolution are compatible, are not scholars of integrity. They forgot to tell you that they have made up their own religion based on something other than what is written in the Bible.

548 posted on 11/07/2005 9:26:54 PM PST by bondserv (God governs our universe and has seen fit to offer us a pardon. †)
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