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To: Dog Gone

They all have one (irrational IMO) thread and that is there’s simply no purpose or intelligence behind any of it.

It goes something like this:

out of no matter or energy, there was a sudden big bang.

Later, all these particles of matter, just somehow swirled around for ga-jillions of years, spinning around, concentrically, expanding and cooling.

Then, for similar inexplicable reasons, the conditions somehow got ripe enough for life, and so on...

thus we pick up with Darwin’s theory, etc. We came from the same single celled organism by sheer chance, accident what have you.

And yet, anything outside of that belief system is a fairy tale and has no place in science.

Not evil, just Godless.


436 posted on 05/01/2008 3:26:29 PM PDT by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing-----Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther
Not evil, just Godless.

But you can't just dismiss the science as saying it's Godless. True, science doesn't look to God for an answer. It will try to prove the 2+2=4 every single time without looking for a supernatural explanation for that.

Science is wholly unequipped to test or even postulate supernatural explanations for anything. If it did, there would be no science. Sir Isaac Newton's apple would fall to the ground because God wanted it to. No further investigation is necessary.

God could be behind the Big Bang or not, or He could be behind the origin of life (which is what I favor until I see any evidence to the contrary), or he could be behind the physical rules of the universe that made Darwin's concept the most likely explanation for the origin of species (which I also believe).

You and I see this differently in that we can see the same things, and you believe one side is saying God can't be involved, and I see that He could be involved in every single step.

That's a matter of philosophy and religion, and there is nothing wrong about arguing about that. That's a good thing. We have a chance of making each other smarter by doing that.

We might, I don't know, disagree whether the Creation story in Genesis is literal or alleghorical. But I don't think we disagree that God's hand is all over where we are now. If we're worried about God, He can take care of Himself, and I don't think it's required that everyone believe EXACTLY the same thing about our origins to know Him.

441 posted on 05/01/2008 4:18:15 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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