[cableguymn]

Our church did a series called crutch about this very issue. looked at it from a realists point of view.

To support the big bag theory, something was created completely out of nothing.. How can that be done? a non-existent fart happened and BOOM there was matter?

Or someone/thing, a power higher than we are able to understand created everything.

I go with Someone on that over the matterless fart.

If the atheist is wrong.. he goes to hell.. if he’s right nothing happens.

If a born again Christian is wrong.. Nothing happens. If he’s right. He’s going to heaven.

When you look at it that way, why wouldn’t you be a Christan? You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Evolution. Like Beck said, how come we stopped evolving? I say it’s because we never started.

[ez]

I’m not sure we stopped evolving. We are 4-6 inches taller than our counterparts from the early 1900’s.

[Raider Sam]

To Big-Bangers, I would ask - what created the stuff that banged?

[gleeaikin]

"Like Beck said, how come we stopped evolving?" If evolution doesn't happen, how come we need a new flu vaccine every year? If evolution doesn't happen, how come bacteria are now resistant to almost all types of penicillin, to the point we are in very real danger of "super bug" forms of e coli and strep? Furthermore, if evolution did not exist, there would not have been the "white" mutation that allowed African humans to move north and supercede the Neanderthals 30 or 40,000 years ago. Nor the lactose tolerance mutation that allowed middle easterners to move into central Europe with their cows and highly nutritious milk and suplant the non lactose tolerant population that was there before 6 to 9,000 years ago. Furthermore, if Mr. Beck doesn't know it is because he hasn't looked. Just like I don't know Swahili, because I have never studied it. Doesn't mean that Swahili doesn't exist. A very interesting book that illustrates evolution in action, not over thousands of years, and not in microscopic organisms, is "The Beak of the Finch" by Jonathan Weiner. He has been doing detailed population studies of various finch (bird) populations over a 20 or 30 year period and documenting active evolution among them.

[SeeSac]

To support the big bag

Genesis says God did it. Let there be light, and so on.

theory, something was created completely out of nothing.. How can that be done?

Don't doubt God's power.

[Godebert]

"Evolution. Like Beck said, how come we stopped evolving? I say it’s because we never started."

If your belief in God hinges on the evolution/Creation debate.....then you have no faith in God.