[MineralMan]

Well, thanks for recognizing that the typical creation story is unbelievable. The thing about your orginal statement wasn't that it's unbelievable, but that it's a mis-statement of what science currently theorizes that happened. The actual explanation makes more sense than your distortion of it.

On the other hand, my description of the creation story is pretty much exactly what creationists say happened.

The bottom line is that every religion of Mankind has some sort of creation story. They're all pretty different, really, but all involve some kind of sudden, magical appearance of things.

In a way, so does the scientific explanation, given the Big Bang theory and the like.

Both are relatively incomprehensible to the average person. However, the scientific side gets less incomprehensible, the more you study it. The creation side stays just as unbelievable.

[GrandEagle]

Well, thanks for recognizing that the typical creation story is unbelievable.
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This my FRiend is how the nastiness gets started. What I did not say was that it is unbelievable. What I said was that, based on ones starting assumptions, it is believable to some, not to others.

To me it is far more believable than "well it could have happened" being accepted as provable, testable, scientific fact. Then continuing to build "could have happened" "Facts" one upon the other until one arrives at a conclusion that supports your original belief, then calling it science and forcing others to teach it at the exclusion of anything that my contradict it.

We have discussed other issues sometimes on the same side, others not. You seem to present your view in an intelligent and thoughtful fashion on other issues.
As of late I avoid these threads because those that I otherwise respect seem to start getting ugly.

Obviously we could continue this on and on, but I won't. Please don't put words in my posts and I'll try and not do that to you.

Cordially,
GE

[RightWhale]

the scientific side gets less incomprehensible, the more you study it

Not so. It is possible to accept convention to the point that the original questions are forgotten.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

The bottom line is that every religion of Mankind has some sort of creation story. They're all pretty different, really, but all involve some kind of sudden, magical appearance of things.

In a way, so does the scientific explanation, given the Big Bang theory and the like.

The Big Bang theory is an admission the universe is an immaculate conception... not at all scientific...

Likewise in fallacy, evolutionary theory claims the earth is the center of the universe...

Illogical captain... If there was no universal dissatifaction for inevitable mortality and lack of a connection to something eternal, why does it matter to humans at all?