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To: PatrickHenry

The big bang may well have happened, but it was not the origin of the universe. Something had to have been there to go bang, or it couldn't have happened.

Evolution happens, we know that. It could not have been the origin of life, however, or there would have been nothing to evolve.

The "scientific" explainations don't explain the origins of either. God is the origin.


32 posted on 11/03/2004 7:38:37 PM PST by jpw01 (Freep the world!)
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To: jpw01

Did Einstein wrap his mind around the concept of God always was?


39 posted on 11/03/2004 10:09:21 PM PST by Ben Chad
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To: jpw01

Of course evolution doesn't explain the origin of life. It's not supposed to. It is a theory about the changes that life underwent after it formed. There are scientific theories about the origin of life, however. These have much less convincing evidence in their favor than does evolution. Scientists are still working on this issue. On the origin of the universe, this too has nothing to do with whether evolution is true or not. The big bang theory exists to explain the way the universe developed. There is a good deal of solid evidence to support this theory just as there is for evolution. It strikes me that neither evolution or big bang theories are incompatible with creationism, however. Is it not possible that God created the universe via the big bang and then created life (whether via a special act of creation or abiogenisis or any other method is irrelevant), and then created the mechanism of evolution to allow for the wide diversity of life we see now? Could not "let there be light" refer to a big bang? (In the earliest stages of the universe, according to the big bang, light is all there is. Matter is created from the light) The Bible also gives the order of creation of types of life in essentially the same order as the theory of evolution predicts. Maybe the scientific theories and the Bible are consistent with each other. There is only one truth. If science and religion appear to contradict each other, the problem is with our understanding of either science, the Bible, or both.


44 posted on 11/04/2004 5:39:06 AM PST by stremba
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To: jpw01; PatrickHenry

Carbon dating upon which most evolutionary proofs depend remains a problem because it assumes so much but mainly steady state theory.

http://www.christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c007.html


82 posted on 11/07/2004 5:11:49 PM PST by eleni121 (NO more reaching out!)
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To: jpw01
The big bang may well have happened, but it was not the origin of the universe. Something had to have been there to go bang, or it couldn't have happened. [...] The "scientific" explainations don't explain the origins of either. God is the origin.

Oh, I see. But then by your own reasoning, God couldn't have happened unless there was something there before him. What was it? And what was there before that? And before that?

Warning: Whichever way you answer this, you will be hoist on your own petard. So consider that there may be something wrong with your premise.

187 posted on 11/08/2004 8:31:06 PM PST by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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