How would you explain your views? I'm trying to convince people that religion and science can and do in fact play together nicely...throw a fella a bone, eh.
2013-11-27T02:27:12Z
Alright...i'll try. Specifically, that evolution and god can co-exist...whether it is God shaping the course, or perhaps something more abstract.
2013-11-27T02:31:41Z
by "god" i of course mean a supreme being of some sort...from Allah/Yahweh/Et al, to the coyote spirit, to the flying spaghetti monster and everything in between.
2013-11-27T02:33:57Z
I'm not a wiccan, funny enough. The name springs from a particularly ignorant teacher in high school who referred to me as "Aliester f**king Crowley" in a conversation with the principal about my behavior in her class.
2013-11-27T02:46:08Z
Ah, but you realize that there are in fact religious scientists out there, yes?
?2013-11-27T02:55:52Z
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The Pope, Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!
Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!
Nice that Christians and atheists can agree and laugh together even if it is at fundie expense!
But behind the laughter is the despair at the fundamentalists striving so hard to destroy Christianity by turning it from a religion to an ideology!
Surveys suggest that 29% of American Christians are so extremist in their beliefs that they fall well outside of the accepted bounds of Christianity!
The mystery's of faith an GOD are beyond human comprehension. Faith concerns questions which cannot be settled by evidence.
How can the universe create itself out of nothingness? Given the fact that the universe began to exist, it must have had a “cause” that originated it.Doesn't it make more sense to assume the existence of a Creation. The question is tricky because it sneaks in the false assumption that GOD came from somewhere and then asks where that might be. The answer is that the question does not even make sense. It is like asking, “What does blue smell like?” Blue is not in the category of things that have a smell, so the question itself is flawed. In the same way, GOD is not in the category of things that are created or caused. GOD is uncaused and uncreated—He simply exists. We know that from nothing, nothing comes. So, if there were ever a time when there was absolutely nothing in existence, then nothing would have ever come into existence. But things do exist. Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing being is what we call GOD ,GOD is the un-caused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
The universe requires a cause because it had a beginning, GOD unlike the universe, had no beginning, so he doesn’t need a cause. Einstein’s theory of general relativity, which has much experimental support, shows that time is linked to matter and space. So time itself would have begun along with matter and space. Since GOD is the creator of the whole universe, he is the creator of time. Therefore He is not limited by the time dimension He created..@
Many people have a very literal reading of the Bible. But, of the dozens of books in it, there is a wide variety of genres, some literal, and others not even close.
The Creation stories (there are 2 in Genesis) are what Theologians call "myth." However, this does NOT mean a fairy story that we can safely ignore! Myth is a story about truth, but, for which the details might not be. So, the book has a great deal of things of importance to our faith, and that of the Jews, but, it is NOT literal - that much is obvious. E.g., the 6 days of Creation - well, there were no witnesses to record it all. It clearly did not happen that way. But, we can still learn a lot from that book - our creation by God, the nature of good, and evil, or role as stewards of the Earth, and a lot more. And, the book does contain literal truth as well, but, not all of it.
I'm Buddhist and currently studying neuroscience (pretty impressive for a bear.)
My take is that we cannot definitively say yes or no there is a God because, as a whole, humanity is not intelligent enough yet. We still are only discovering new places and species on the planet we inhabit, how the f**k could we even theorise on the existence of a God? Evolution is certain, it is there and it is tangible. That does not mean that, in one scenario, there was some external influence in the original design or even the original conditions. Perhaps there was none but some higher power did create much of the universe. Or perhaps this was all down to probability. They're all feasible realities with our current understandings of the universe, as we develop so will our ability to see the bigger picture.
I do wish people would firstly read all of Darwin's theories and then read the Bible correctly. The Bible talks about the steps in the early stages of the evolutionary process used by God during the creation. The Bible refers to the firmament which is the substance in which God suspended the planets; science now knows, over 3000 years late, that the space between planetary bodies is not empty. The Bible got the steps of the evolution correct before science started trying to make Gold from Lead. Neither Darwin nor science has ever proved that man evolved from primates; the Bible stories reveal that this was know over 3000 years ago.
To deny God because we found one of God's creation tools is like denying the existence of a scientist because we have discovered their computer.
Look past the prejudices of some religious leaders who hid the knowledge revealed in the Bible because they wanted to control people at the expense of God's truth.