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To: elmer fudd
I have nothing against religion. It's just not scientific.

I have nothing against science. It's just not built on fact. It is a built on a series of hypotheses and suppositions, supported by other hypotheses and suppositions.

Take carbon dating, of old documents, and pottery shards, to establish how old some things are. Can it be adjusted, by the tester, to give a pre-supposed reference?

Science is very interesting, and seems very real. Men took slide rules, punch-card computers, and flew a bird into the sky. It just left the area we call our Solar System. It was the focus of a Star Trek movie. Thye made contact with V-ger, and found it to be Voyager.

The Wright Brothers left the ground, literally by the seat-of-their-pants and their balls. They were the brunt of derision and wonder. We revere their achievenments, now.

I get on a plane, and trust it to go into the air, travel a long distance, and safely place me back on the ground. A 747, fully loaded weighs as much as 385 tons on take-off. Mulitply by 2205 lbs. and that is a lot of zeroes. It rarely doesn't finish its voyage to it's destination.

There are laws, that science has dubbed with names. Gravity, inertia, lift, force, and a myriad of others, with names, and terms, defined in physics tomes.

That's all good. Where did it start?

Which God is Supreme? I can tell you what Christians believe...

We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the only Son of God,

eternally begotten of the Father,

God from God, Light from Light,

true God from true God,

begotten, not made,

of one Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation he came down from heaven:

by the power of the Holy Spirit he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;

he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures;

he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,

and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son.

With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.

He has spoken through the Prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.

Amen

The Nicene Creed- was adopted at the Council of Nicea, to bring about some order, to the disparate views, about how to define Christianity. It is accepted in the Roman Church, and most Protestant Churches, as well. It's reference to catholic means 'universal'...

Nobody makes you believe in a god, but I believe that He made all the cards. He trumps it all!...

"In the beginning, God..."!


34 posted on 06/01/2005 10:25:11 AM PDT by pageonetoo (You'll spot their posts soon enough!)
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To: pageonetoo

BUMP!


45 posted on 06/01/2005 2:26:40 PM PDT by Pagey (Whether Hillary Clintons attacks on America are a success or a failure depends upon YOU TOO!)
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