Posted on 04/21/2008 7:23:01 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Perfectly stated
Matter has been created in high energy laboratories
“Do you think any of them changed their minds about evolution because of Dawkin’s personal sentiments about religion?”
No. I think everybody came with their mind made up, and wanted to find fuel to prop up their already determined belief system. I include myself in this description. This supports Stein’s point: people first determine their belief system, and then they search out supporting “science”. For this reason, it’s folly to pretend that science and philosophy can be separated.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Is that the way science should be approached, and is Stein film contributing to getting people to view the issues objectively or exacerbating the problem?
The aliens came from other, previous aliens, and so on, ad infinitum. Alternatively, the whole process is contained in a time loop, so eventually we will create the aliens that ultimately will create us ;)
D’Souza’s book, “What’s So Great About Christianity?” is a very good read.
Who said anything about the Bible? The question is, where did the first life come from?
The bible makes no mention of the large intestines, but we are certainly all full of cr*p...
No one should’ve been surprized as Dawkins has made no effort to keep his views hidden. Indeed his views amongst evolutionists are far from uncommon. If you watched the PBS program, “The Power Of Myth”, with the late Joseph Campbell you would hear him say, with a smile of course, that all your religious beliefs were myths constructed to explain what you didn’t understand but what he would now make clear. All religion is “feel goodism”, so to speak.
A pleasant enough fellow but in his way just as arrogant as Dawkins. Answering soft ball questions from Moyers, Campbell, the atheist, made clear that he felt his certitude trumped the “myths” that seized the religious believer.
Since ‘the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom’ no atheist has any wisdom to offer in my view.
One of the scientists, last name 'Fredkin', is into cellular automata - a form of computer whose cells' values vary according to the values of the cells around them according to a certain set of rules. One of the principal qualities of cellular automata is that the end state cannot be inferred from its initial values - you must go through each iteration to find the end state.
Fredkins' main hypothesis is that the universe is comprised of matter, energy, and information; he proposes that the universe is one vast cellular automata, created by a god as a computer to resolve some conundrum; as time passes, each sub-atomic particle reacts, according to set rules, with the particles around it, to ultimately create the flow of history we see around us (of which evolution, and the concept "evolution", are part). The ultimate answer will only be determined at the end of time.
Anyway, I thought it was a good book and that you might enjoy it...
And if they don't realize that God is LOVE, then they spend eternity suffering in Hell?
This can only happen when one submits to the Father through His holy and perfect son, Jesus Christ, who died to pay for all of one's sin thus making one acceptable in the sight of The Eternal Judge who must keep justuce.
Does that mean Ben Stein will go to Hell if he doesn't convert from Judaism to Christianity?
Or not. We still don't quite understand the nature of time.
The answer is 42. The mice had Earth built to solve that one.
Let me see, " Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
So, what person is created without intestines?
According to today’s best estimates, the universe is about 13.73 billion years old and the Earth is about 4.54 billion years old.
You don’t think an extra 9.19 billion years, in which life could have developed elsewhere in the universe, is significant?
Thanks for thinking of me but I already have the Truth. It is the Bible. Theories are a dime a dozen as Dawkins adds another. No need for me to read fiction.
No, it hasn’t. It has been changed, not created. Einstein is still right, nothing can be created or destroyed, just changed.
God, is God, He was, is, and always will be. He made time.
Gene Rodenberry!
Dinish will be debating this question this Fri. eve. at Biola U. in La Mirada , Ca. I will be there to see how he does against a professor.
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