[cbvanb]

I appreciate your reasoned response. I believe that God is the author of all things, but there is no sin in trying to understand how he did it. The answers may well be beyond our reach, but it is fun to try to figure out how it all happened.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Yes, and I don’t believe that God and science are in any mutually exclusive. God made a universe that behaves according to physical laws. The ones making trouble are the ones trying to misuse science to disprove God, which is impossible. God is above science, not opposed to it.

[HLPhat]

>> I believe that God is the author of all things, but there is no sin in trying to understand how he did it

Yep.

Seems to me that if there's a sin in the context of this debate - it's in the arrogant pride of the fallible and uninspired whose OPINIONS have assumed dominion over the faith of others - culminating in multiple generations of children who've been driven into rejecting religion, and their own redemption, because they've been told to disbelieve what they see with their own eyes and free minds.

Furthermore, having driven those children into an insane wilderness of self-worshipping OPINION; the religious have given over those children to predators who would further confound things until significant numbers can't even apply the meager logic, reason, and common sense to know what sex they are.

Luke 17:1-3

17 Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. 2 It would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. 3

NIV

[publius911]

I appreciate your reasoned response. I believe that God is the author of all things, but there is no sin in trying to understand how he did it. The answers may well be beyond our reach, but it is fun to try to figure out how it all happened.

Somewhere, wherever he may be, Diogenes just smiled...