The Religion thread (In government, in school, in general)

God created everything, not just man....the Bible does not state how. I can reconcile the two.

 

What? That's a ridiculous statement, who created god? Or did he just oneday decide to create man and the world?

 

We've already discussed this. God's parents created him and his brothers. Him and Jethro were playing and needed someone to play with. There were some sisters apparently since we keep finding useless pretty stars scattered everywhere. :up:

 

That is my belief, one that you obviously do not share.

You choose to belive that there was a huge explosion out of nothing, the universe was born, and man evolved from a chemical ooze.

 

Who created the nothing that caused the explosion is a good question.

 

Yep, science has proved that.

 

As Dave pointed out, that is the unanswerable question for either.

 

It has? Please cite.

 

Not who, but what, is more accurate.

 

Man, don't you watch the Discovery channel?

 

Sometimes, but I have yet to see anything anywhere offered up as an absolute proof of the origins of the universe or life as we know it.

 

You didn't see that show?

 

I tried to Tivo, but God smote my machine.

 

So based on that you fall back to the logical conclusion that a supreme being created it, without any absolute proof?

 

Who said it was logical?

 

Yep...absent absolute proof, how does one accept that there is no creator?

 

So, as long as you believe that the bible/koran/talmud/Cat-in-the-hat is the literal word of your chosen god, you must renounce evolution? OK, I can understand that.

So, how about those who believe in God/god/buddah/Mike and beleive that all the creation myths in all the cultures are just that, "myths"? Stories invented by men to explain the unexplainable?

 

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I hate these arguements but I must state that science doesn't "prove" anything. In mathematics, you can prove a statement. In science, one must be able to test the hypothesis on all possibilites to constitue a proof. This is impossible. That is why science is so powerful. A theory is an explaination that generally is predictive for a large set of phenomenon. e.g. Newton's Laws of motion work in the realm of slow moving, everyday size object but is down right wrong in the scale of the very small or very fast moving, etc.
My belief is that religion is a constant search, never ending. If you think that you have found the answer, I think that it no longer has deep spiritual meaning. The infinite is too much for our small brains to say "it must be this way" or "jebus says so so it must be true." OMG I must stay away from this thread....