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To: WildHorseCrash
First, what non-documentary evidence do you have that there is such a thing as a God?

The creations speak for themselsves, do you really need to do other than look around at the of earth? Can you not see that even the little bombadire bettel could not have evolved, that there had to be a Creator?

31 posted on 09/22/2005 7:34:43 AM PDT by newsgatherer
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To: newsgatherer

Might not be a the biblical god. Might be space aliens. Might be vast mechanized robots. Might be Allah.
We really should consider all the scientific possibilities. One of which is that the bible is not literally true.


32 posted on 09/22/2005 7:37:58 AM PDT by blowfish
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To: newsgatherer
The creations speak for themselsves, do you really need to do other than look around at the of earth? Can you not see that even the little bombadire bettel could not have evolved, that there had to be a Creator?

Thanks for the reply.

Well, I don't think that biological entities themselves bespeak creation, let alone the existence of a God. Those people whose job it is to examine biological entities are nearly unanimous in the opinion that they evolved. This would, of course, include those who believe that evolution to be the direct or indirect work of a deity, but it opens the possibility of it be fully naturalistic evolution.

The evolution of the bombardier beetle, for example, is by no means impossible nor even improbable. Many of the necessary intermediate features are common among related beetles.

So, I don't think that qualifies, but I respect your right to hold that opinion.

What about the other questions? (Let me repeat them:)

Second, what non-documentary evidence do you have that, if there is a God, that it is Yahweh/Jehovah and not, for example, Vishnu or Oden?

Third, what evidence do you have that the Muslim interpretation of things, in which the Koran was given to the Jews and Christians who then perverted it into the current forms of those religions, is false (assuming that you do, in fact, believe it to be false)?

Fourth, on your believe in the Bible; if the Bible said something that you knew, from non-biblical sources, for an absolute fact was not true, would you believe the Bible? For example, if the Bible said "all cats reproduce by laying eggs out of which kittens hatch," would you believe cats lay eggs or would you conclude that the text is wrong and believe what you know to be the truth?


54 posted on 09/22/2005 10:53:41 AM PDT by WildHorseCrash
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