There is nothing miraculous about it. It was actually a slow process of chemicals and environmental conditions coming together over billions of years to produce man.
Miracles are illogical fantasies that religious people use to explain their beliefs where logic falls short.
Furthermore, I don't reject creation because Ayn Rand does. I reject creation because it cannot be scientifically proven. Anyone who wants you to believe in creation usually tells you that you must have "Faith", and then asks you to donate 10% of your salary for "God".
I am quite willing to risk an eternity in hell, for intellectual freedom on earth. I think that hell and heavan are simply stories that men have created for two reasons: 1)They have unanswered questions such as "How did I get here? in their minds, make up an incredible story to explain it rather than accept that they may never know the answer. 2) They want to have power over others, so they claim that there is a great place in the afterlife (that can't be proven) and tell others that they must perform acts of self depravation to them to get their. We call these power hungry people priests and ministers.
I reject creation, as outlined in the Bible, because it has been scientifically disproven.
There is nothing miraculous about it. It was actually a slow process of chemicals and environmental conditions coming together over billions of years to produce man.
Tell you what, sit down and calculate the probability that these random chemicals would come to "life" even over 5 Billion years. It is an extremely low number! All science has ever "created" were basic amino acids in numberous experiments. None of these sprang to life. No, I see the Intelligent Designer at work in the design of life on earth.
Miracles are illogical fantasies that religious people use to explain their beliefs where logic falls short.
If you accept God as The Creator, He certainly can perform actions in our time and space that that would be well beyond our ability to understand and explain.
How incredibly sad and short sighted. It is the fool who says, "There is no God."
Kindly indulge everyone by "scientifically proving" your assertations... :)
Furthermore, I don't reject creation because Ayn Rand does. I reject creation because it cannot be scientifically proven. Anyone who wants you to believe in creation usually tells you that you must have "Faith", and then asks you to donate 10% of your salary for "God".
If you reject creationism because it cannot be "scientifically proven," then you must also reject evolution because it hasn't been "proven" either.
Check your dictionary for the meaning of "theory".
I am quite willing to risk an eternity in hell, for intellectual freedom on earth. I think that hell and heavan are simply stories that men have created for two reasons: 1)They have unanswered questions such as "How did I get here? in their minds, make up an incredible story to explain it rather than accept that they may never know the answer. 2) They want to have power over others, so they claim that there is a great place in the afterlife (that can't be proven) and tell others that they must perform acts of self depravation to them to get their. We call these power hungry people priests and ministers.
LOL
By "intellectual freedom" I assume you mean that you hold to a dogma which rejects organized religion...?
One can only wonder if you will ever appreciate how small, frightened and absurd your statements were :*)
P.S. Depraved and deprived mean very different things. I'll assume it to be a Freudian slip on your part :)
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
That is why they are called miracles :>)
1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Happy New Year!
I logically conclude that miracles are simple, logical, manipulations of energy presently not known nor fully understood by man. The reason that the agnostic discredits some things that were once considered miracles is because they are now logically understood. Miracles are logical. To understand a miracle logically, is a miracle.
Both the agnostic and the believer discover miracles by the same method, faith. My religious fantasies can be observed logically without contradiction. That man may not logically understand a miracle, is man's limitation. With God all things are possible, simply because He knows just a few more logical applications that we have not yet discovered.
Now that's what I call "enlightenment!"
You may speak for your own ancestors. I will claim Adam & Eve. Based on the 4th graph of your response, perhaps the chemicals you descended from were rather inert.
"I reject creation because it cannot be scientifically proven. .... -snip-
I am quite willing to risk an eternity in hell, for intellectual freedom on earth. I think that hell and heavan are simply stories that men have created for two reasons: 1)They have unanswered questions such as "How did I get here? in their minds, make up an incredible story to explain it rather than accept that they may never know the answer. 2) They want to have power over others, so they claim that there is a great place in the afterlife (that can't be proven) ....
antienviormentalist... You say that you reject creationism because it can't be scientifically proven, moreover you say you are quite willing to risk an eternity in hell, for intellectual freedom on earth. Whew. I say to you, what if you're wrong ? That's a mighty heavy price to pay for the God given free will that you already possess. When you gentlemen come to understand, appreciate and accept the freedom that Faith brings to your life I'm certain that others will benefit from your spiritual and intellectual growth.
BTW, for the record, I'm not a wild-eyed Bible thumping fanatic. I'm an Episcopalian. I keep on my desk a quote from the acceptance speech President Bush gave at the convention. He said it so much better than I ever could:
"I believe in tolerance, not in spite of my faith, but because of it.
I believe in a God who calls us, not to judge our neighbors, but to love them.
I believe in grace, because I have seen it ... In peace, because I have felt it ... In forgiveness, because I have needed it."
Have a nice rest of the evening.