Well if their was a big bang and thats when creation happened then isnt their something before that to make the big bang? :stoned:Quote:
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Well if their was a big bang and thats when creation happened then isnt their something before that to make the big bang? :stoned:Quote:
Originally Posted by Oneironaut
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But how did the creator get here?
Check this out:
If God created the universe, then who created God?
I think this is an incredible statement :
".....Also, if there is no cause, there is no explanation why this particular universe appeared at a particular time, nor why it was a universe and not, say, a banana or cat which appeared. This universe can??t have any properties to explain its preferential coming into existence, because it wouldn??t have any properties until it actually came into existence."
Doesn't it also make sense that the proper environmental conditions happened to arise, and life leapfrogged itself to accommodate to these conditions, adapting when said conditions changed, leaving us (all life on this planet) where we are today?Quote:
Originally Posted by natureisawesome
Just because something is easier to believe doesn't mean that it's right. For every piece of information pointing to this or that theory, there is something indicating against it. There are no absolutes when it comes to the knowledge of the creation of the universe (despite what you or anyone else might believe), just speculations.
lol you are right earth is PERFECT for life... that's why there isn't life anywhere else we can see, because it is rare... but ya know what... rare isn't too rare in infinity ;)
That articles answers a question with facts that can't be proven. They state that god created the universe, without any facts to back up that statement. But they do not explain who created God, they just say that god always was, without having a beginning. But everything has to have a beginning. Even if it didn't though, you could just use that same argument to say that the matter which separated after the big bang just always was.Quote:
Originally Posted by natureisawesome
OR we adapted to fit the environment that earth provided for us, and we can't live on other planets because we didn't adapt to their conditions, simply because that's not where we ended up.Quote:
Originally Posted by HighTillIDie
God was really bad at physics...
if he really did mean to create us all in his image, and make sure that His word was spread far and beyond, why would he create a place where only 1 planet out of an infinite number could sustain the life that would spread "the gospel"?
We are merely the product of convenience, and it's high time (haha i said High time) a lot of people realized that we aren't a big fucking deal.
It's so "ironic" that "God" put us on the only planet that could sustain life, instead of life growing on the only planet that it could inhabit.
Sheesh.
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Originally Posted by vej33
WHY DON"T PEOPLE GET THIS...
NO MAGIC PEOPLE
none
zero
zilch
you are a damn animal, and your closest related species, which we share chemical, biological and behavioral traits... throws poop at one another
word fucking UP HightillIDie!!
lol i get so worked up over this stuff. i hated educational science classes, but i can't get enough of this universe information!!!!!!! XD I LOVE A GOOD DEBATE!
Besides the God stuff, people can't explain how something (everything) was created from nothing, and they can't really explain how something is truly infinite. Also, infinity (the Universe) can apparently exist with nothing in it, but if it's nothing, how can it exist? People also have no idea of what creates awareness. And of course time is something without substance, so doesn't really exist.
Wow, this is seriously one of the best threads, if not the best thread, I have ever read in my entire life. I've been sitting here for over an hour just researching the basics behind these theories, I'm so interested in them. I'm sure I'll eventually give up once it starts getting too hard to comprehend without knowing the math behind it but this has really got me thinking. 4 Star thread.
Yeah, no human has the mental capacity to accept the concept of something appearing in our eyes from nothing because that defeats the whole idea of our reality. But what if our reality isn't the only reality. which it probably isn't. that probably makes no sense
and the only reason why i think religion would be my thing in the future is to fight the thoughts of afterlife i get. even if its brainwashing, i hate these thoughts and they make me feel like shit. the whole "nothingness, never to be again" makes me feel so bad.
Very simply other scientists have proven the theory is bunk.....I am personally a Christian,so I believe in Creation. Read the book Starlight and Time.It's written by a scientist....It's extremely interesting and covers different scientific theories from a science perspective.Pretty cool!!:thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by king of the world
the leading theory on the big bang was that there was one iota more peice of matter than their was anti matter. this therefore cause the spark we know as the big bang, due to an imbalance. it is well documented that the universe is exanding and scientists are working on fining a point of origin using the degredation of energy from the big bang that we still see in the universe in the form of back ground radiation. there are two major theories, that firstly the universe will expand indefinately, this is somewhat beyond the human's minds conception but it is probable.
the other maybe more believable is that the universe will expand till it reaches a criticle mass, then it will implode back upon itself. this would make the universe in all definition behave like a wave, as is light which only behaves this way when observed, so it is likely that the universe will recreate itself but posible on the negative side to complete a cycle, so there may be a dawning where anti matter is prevelant in the universe and all things are the fundemental opposite.
this still begs the question as to what the universe exists within, what plain or body it is contained within. this however is detrient to the fact that the universe is trying to be explained with human logic, when in honesty it is the wrong way of thinking, humans have to be explained within the logic of the universe as it is absolute.
humans have tried for milenia to find a god, answer, body who created, contains or controls the universe, but this is ultimately flawed human logic.
its the kinda question that will make you go insane and will never be answered. dshame really
snowblind
i know that science and religion dont really mix well ,but i dont think that they are mutually exclusive. i mean think about it for a second, could it not be possible that there is a god, and before the big bang there was nothing, then god "let there be light." which caused the big bang.
so to put it in question form:
do you think that science(big bang and stuff) and religion (god and stuff) are mutually exclusive?
now while this is possible simply because i think it will be another thousand years before man better understands the universe... we still don't know sooo sooo much... and the only way to know any of this is to basically dieQuote:
Originally Posted by king of the world
BUT the bible and most other religous texts state creation as instant... or instant steps, in short periods of time... so that does wane(sp) on those theories
but really what does it change? i follow the breadcrumbs my life has left me
I don't think it's truly infinite, meaning that you will never hit a boundary and never see the same thing twice. I like the idea that if you go in one direction long enough, you end up where you were. Many people believe that. Maybe I only like it because it's much easier than comprehending infiniteness.
I don't know how it happens, but sometimes I type things trying to speak the truth in a loving way, and then I read it afterwards and it comes out really agressive. Sorry if it seems that way, it's not my intention.
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Doesn't it also make sense that the proper environmental conditions happened to arise, and life leapfrogged itself to accommodate to these conditions, adapting when said conditions changed, leaving us (all life on this planet) where we are today?
No. Only life begets life.
I've heard statements like this before, and I really think people don't think about this very much. Sometimes the information is inconclusive, and this can be misleading. But what we know for certain, those thing we can scientifically anylize here today, we can compare to theories available and use to build upon those premises. There are many verifable evidences of creation. The problem is, we don't know everything, and for many until they see with thier eyes God creating the universe when he takes them back in time to see it, they won't believe. And maybe they wouldn't believe even then. But if a person discredits creationism because of it's lack of evidence ("were you there???"), then it would indeed prove to be overwhelming hypocricy on the part of the evolutionist.Quote:
For every piece of information pointing to this or that theory, there is something indicating against it.
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It does indeed answer with facts. The question you asked was about who created God or where did God comes from. The article directly answers that from a biblical perspective. If God exists, how would you expect someone to show you eternity??? Should I just send it to you in a box or something?Quote:
That articles answers a question with facts that can't be proven. They state that god created the universe, without any facts to back up that statement. But they do not explain who created God, they just say that god always was, without having a beginning. But everything has to have a beginning. Even if it didn't though, you could just use that same argument to say that the matter which separated after the big bang just always was.
The article pointed out that everything that has a beginning has a cause. The universe had a beginning and therefore must have had a first cause. God does not need a cause because he never had a beginning. He's been forever and ever.
The article also uses other scientific facts to show that the universe cannot expand forever, that according to the laws of thermodynamics the universe cannot continue forever it will slow down to a dead stop, even in an oscillating universe "Each one of the hypothetical cycles would exhaust more and more usable energy. This means every cycle would be larger and longer than the previous one, so looking back in time there would be smaller and smaller cycles. So the multicycle model could have an infinite future, but can only have a finite past."
It points out that "there are many lines of evidence showing that there is far too little mass for gravity to stop expansion and allow cycling in the first place" and that "the universe still has only about half the mass needed for re-contraction"
Also, very importantly it points out "that Finally, no known mechanism would allow a bounce back after a hypothetical ??big crunch??.7 As the late Professor Beatrice Tinsley of Yale explained, even though the mathematics says that the universe oscillates, ??There is no known physical mechanism to reverse a catastrophic big crunch.?? Off the paper and into the real world of physics, those models start from the Big Bang, expand, collapse, and that??s the end.8"
It points out several other things as well. I guess it's easy for you to blow off the evidence I've provided when the material is off site.
Listen, according to the laws of the universe, according to every scientific experiment ever conducted by a human being, every effect has a cause. But that only applies in the physical universe. God is outside of time. He created time. He's beyond our full comprehension. People are saying how it's all too much for us to grasp. Well there it is. God is too much for us too grasp. But at the same time in his wisdom and his all mighty power he gave us a comprehension of God.
no. because ultimately the cause of the big bang would have a previous cause and it would in the end have to have an original cause. That's just the natural laws that exist. If we had no understanding of natural laws then that might be a consideration. But according to all of the scientific evidence ever recorded, every cause has an effect.Quote:
Even if it didn't though, you could just use that same argument to say that the matter which separated after the big bang just always was.
And I would really like someone to answer the quote about the universe not being a banana. Particularly this statement:
This universe can??t have any properties to explain its preferential coming into existence, because it wouldn??t have any properties until it actually came into existence."
Think of the order in the universe. All the natural laws that hold things together and keep everything from being absolutel chaos. I think we take that for granted. If there is no God keeping order in the heavens and the universe just happened, then there is no reason to believe that the coming to be of the universe is any more to be expected than the big bang producing a gallon of ice cream.
vej33 said:
God was really bad at physics...
Because he only wanted the gospel spread upon that one planet!Quote:
if he really did mean to create us all in his image, and make sure that His word was spread far and beyond, why would he create a place where only 1 planet out of an infinite number could sustain the life that would spread "the gospel"?
All those aliens you see in star wars can't be made in God's image. Only we are made in God's image. There's no reason to spread us all over the universe. God put us here, and it started with two people in the middle of the universe. that sounds right to me.
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No. And even if that were really to happen, it wouldn't be for another 5 billion years if I remember correctly.Quote:
Does the bible say anything about the sun engulfing us in the distant future?
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And of course time is something without substance, so doesn't really exist.
I'll ignore the other things you said, but I will mention that time is in fact finite, and I suggest you study up on some physics.
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I don't know about the first one, but I know as far as the second, this is not possible. Take a look at the page I liked to earlier which points our that there is too little mass for gravity to stop expansion.Quote:
there are two major theories, that firstly the universe will expand indefinately, this is somewhat beyond the human's minds conception but it is probable.
the other maybe more believable is that the universe will expand till it reaches a criticle mass, then it will implode back upon itself.
"Because he only wanted the gospel spread upon that one planet!"
I'm sorry but that makes no sense to me. Why would he do that? What about allllllll the other planets he created? He doesn't care about them or the life they may support? Why go through the trouble of creating EVERYTHING if he's not going to use it?
Do you really take everything in the Bible literally? What about the things that have been proven without doubt to be wrong, for example; earth being the center of the universe.
I suggest you read a book called "The Last Templar." It's a very
good book and I would recommend it to anyone. Anyway, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything about your religion, but I just can't help being skeptical, no, more like have 99% doubt about everything I hear about the religion.
Religions are like living species. They probably start small, then get bigger and bigger, but eventually, most species of animals will go extinct and die out. The same happens with religion.
Personally, I think religion in general causes waaaaaay too many problems. Far more than they solve. They cause war, discrimination, and much more.
One last food for thought: There are soooo many religions in the world, most of them conflicting each other. Everybody believes theirs to be right. Everybody's can't be right though, obviously, so what makes you so sure yours and the right one?
the thing about life and specifically life on the earth is that it is dependent on 3 things, carbon, oxygen and light from the sun. all our energies when traced back to its roots are derived from the sun, with the possible exception of nuclear power, yet with complex physics it is possible to relate the two. these are the things we and all life forms on earth need and needed to create and sustain life.
its is arguble that electricity, initially from lightening then from sustained bio creation is required but this is not an exclusivity of life, more perhaps its defining characeristic.
we where created on this earth due to circumstances adn chance, out planet being the rght distance, water, food, primordial soup, lightening. this created living cells, evolution, big macs yadda yadda yadda.
but this is not to say that the life we know as being life is the only only life form in the universe. so to think that we are alone or that god created us is wrong.
yet the idea of god is one that i personally think has been miscontrued through all the religons and all the 'holy people'
i think god or the nature of god is life, but is energy in essence, not nessecerially a being or a concious but unexplainable vibrating of particles, atoms, quarks, that sustain us.
all religon takes of the good and the bad the light and dark and i think they are there on the cusp of it, but it has been flawed and manipulated by human control.
llight really is the essence of the human world and probably but not ultimately other life forms.
in response to the person asking about mutual exclusivity of religon and science. they are not mutually exclusive at all and infact often youse each other to explain their own downfalls.
i would argue more that science is the dominet with religon filling in the blanks, but it is important to treat things with spiritualatiy otherwise we become nothing more than bio chemical reactions.
science has always been condemed by religon thanks to small minded religous zealots, who seek power, control and wealth through the masses.
religon for all the good it does in this world and it does do alot, is the cause of so much pain and suffering. due to the small mindedness of those that loose the inherent meaning of each religon so easily when it is attacked. love, peace and respect.
this truely is the gateway to a higher existence and to a rested soul. and no god could deny a person on the grounds of following the wron sect, because they are all just sects of the same thing, if they adhere to those simple principles.
this is why i love weed
i love physics
and i love debating the universe
it always reminds me of the stars, i love to look at them because they never seem to change, yet the world does so fast and in 100 years they will be the only things that know who i am.
peace and progress
snowblind
People also think that life may not be native to earth, but that it may have come from somewhere else. They think it may have come on a comet or something like that that hit the earth.
It is possible for live to live on a comet. These thing are called extremeophiles, and they can handle very intense conditions.
Why hasn't this thread devolved into silly pictures of lolcats yet?
I dunno if anyone posted this already, but I read somewhere, that the universe keeps expanding, until it's stretched so much, that it colapses onto itself, aka. another big bang.. This will happen forever and ever and ever and ever..
The article I read was alot more complex, but that should give you the basics..:)
I totaly get this theroy too like some one said somewhere on the second page they are finding bones where they are not soposed to be. This proves we did not come from apes, if they have found human bones not neanderthal or yeti but human in the time where their should have been no humans, this proves we did not come from apes, the best Idea I have heard to support the theroy of evolution was. "Those Monkeys were stupid they didnt follows us and look at them now" and life is all over our univers just not walking around and tryin to conntact us.....as far as we know oh and M Theroy look it upQuote:
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druing the age where neanderthals where around, there was another evolutionary type of humans, who acoriding to all artifacts and bones where intelectually superior to us, in that they had a larger brain with a massive frontal lobe, much like the statues on easter island. it is thought that during one of the ice ages where both species roamed, that us homo erectus managed to domesticate dogs to such a standard that we used them to hunt. apparently this was our winning edge over the impending snow and ability to find food.
the evolutionary chain is not really a chain,it is more a web based on trial and error. therefore it is likely that there were many alpha and beta types of every animal and being on this planet that never made the cut. darwinism and all.
it is evolutionary possible to trace humans back all the way to well if you wanted to amobe in the primordial soup.
natureisawesome. THERE IS NO TANGIBLE EVIDENCE FOR CREATIONISM WHAT SO EVER !!??!!
what is your proof ?
lol it is funny too because of how much the universe is expanding, and how long it take light to get to us, what we see in space, is mostly billions of years ago
No evidence for creation whatsoever???
Why don't you go look in the mirror.
Do you just want me to start listing all the evidence, because that might take me the rest of my life.
We both have the same evidence, but we have different interpretations of that evidence because of two different worldviews. The Bible says that faith in God is foolishness to man. It says the faith of the gospel is foolishness to the gentiles. Man will believe in what his own crooked mind has devised, but he will hardly consider believing in God. Which is hypocricy, because even evolution requires belief! So as I've pointed out before, If you say I don't have any evidence because it's not all conclusive, well then right back at you! But the evidence we do have fits with creation, and just about everything your teachers taught you about evolution in high school was rejected by leading evolutionists themselves years and years and years ago. But they keep teaching it to your children (just like in communist countries, isn't that interesting), because they don't have anything else to stand on! That's why many leading evolutionists have rejected long periods for evolution and now are devising crackpot theories of spontaneous evolution. It couldn't have taken millions of years, because the evidence doesn't show that, so It must have happened real quick. And all this was way back in the eighties, and if you don't know about this, then go do some studying before anyone call me ignorant.
Here is a short thing to say, but in real application it is HUGE. All dna in living species is absolute evidence creation of God, because the laws of the universe, specifically the laws of thermodynamics, would not and do not allow organisms to form from basic elements. There are several other laws that would help to keep this from happening, and even though it's already been shown to be absolutely totally statistically impossible over 20 years ago, teachers and professors still preach that garbage like it's a fact over and over, because if people really started having some skepticism, then evolution would be exposed as the simple minded corrupt fantasy it really is. Not only would the laws of nature not allow evolution to happen, but according to evolution, changes that happen to dna are random, and therefore cannot create the order neccessary to survive and develop into intracate organisms and creatures fit to survive and flourish. And in reality there is no mechanism in nature that causes an organism to "adapt" to stimuli in nature. There just isn't, and even darwin himself criticized this preposterous idea. If most people knew what darwin hypothesised to cause macroevolution he would never again be seen as leading figure. He would be seen as the fool he really was.
Aside from the things I pointed out earlier as things that fit with a creationist model, there are many other evidences.
Man and woman being alive at the same time. This is probably one of, if not the biggest attacks to evolution and one of the greatest evidences of God. To say man evolved is one thing, but then woman evolved too, in the same time period with the capability to magically fit mans ingredibly complex sex organs and reproduce? And all this had to happen in short enough time before they died. Man and woman fit well together, remarkably I might add, and evolutionists are dead silent on this issue. You can say man took millions of years to evolve, but all along that time he had to have been able to reproduce, but this would in evolutionary theory, take millions and millions of years. But it's all silly, and even man evolving alone is almost as silly. Perhaps someone might say that they developed sex organs earlier on hen they were simpler organisms. Oh really?? Well, beside the fact that that still totally couldn't have happened because even simple organisms reproduction systems are incredibly complex, it only poses a slightly smaller challange than before, and even if it did happen, when the creatures evolved into higher species, both sexes would have had to evolve higher in conjunction in every generation.
I'm going to stop right there because I want to point out something very important. There is a lot of material evidence that fits with creation. But something I believe just as or more important is another kind of evidence. This is evidence that's not just numbers or rocks or bones. The bible says that:
" the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse "
What does this mean in practical application? It means that God created everything through his divine inspiration, that through his creation he's revealed his nature. But these things simply cannot be anylized in test tubes or carbon dated because these things are ETERNAL. The order that he's created and his creation show his love. And you can see it everywhere from the relationship a man has to a wife, father to son, mother to daughter. Think of the natural balance in the relationship between woman and man. Think of the conscience we have within ourselves, which show a reflection of God's nature, and reveal our need for a relationship with him. And I could go on. Honestly though, it's so hard to talk about those things, because it's so mysterious. But If you look at the order of the heavens and earth, how the grass grows for us to walk on, and the trees give food for us to eat, and in the sky the clouds float above us, and beyond the stars fill the universe. When I consider the order and beauty, and it all just fits so well, and I recognise God's workmanship, albeit sealed up in a mystery.
I suggest you go check out some articles on this website:
Answers in Genesis - Creation, Evolution, Christian Apologetics
make it legal said:
QUOTE]I'm sorry but that makes no sense to me. Why would he do that? What about allllllll the other planets he created? He doesn't care about them or the life they may support? Why go through the trouble of creating EVERYTHING if he's not going to use it?[/QUOTE]
I think he is using it. To impress us mostly, and show us how powerful and awesome he is. Have you ever camped out under the stars on a really clear night, and it ll just feels so huge, and you sit back and think about how your staring into the universe on a giant rock floating and spinning through space at thousands of miles an hour. Pretty powerful.
Also the angels have a lot better view than we do, and they worship him too.
And not to mention that God is a master artist.
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Do you really take everything in the Bible literally?
Not everything is meant to be taken literally. But generally, if it says plainly "such and such happened" yes I believe it. Prophecy though, for example, has much symbolism.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing in God's word that has been proven wrong. I've read through the Word and I can't remember it ever saying the earth is the center of the universe, or that the earth is flat. Those errors were made by men, not God's word.Quote:
What about the things that have been proven without doubt to be wrong, for example; earth being the center of the universe.
But it turns out we are actually pretty close to the center of the universe as I pointed out before.
Eh, I don't think so. Anything with the words "templar" tends to make me wary. Maybe I'll check out the description.Quote:
I suggest you read a book called "The Last Templar.
To put it bluntly, because everything fits, and I will not deny the Truth.Quote:
One last food for thought: There are soooo many religions in the world, most of them conflicting each other. Everybody believes theirs to be right. Everybody's can't be right though, obviously, so what makes you so sure yours and the right one?
Here's one last food of thought for you. I hear the same objection to Christianity and religion over and over. Among these are " religion is just a form of mind/people control" and "religion hurts more people than it helps" and "religions causes so many wars".
How is it that so many people are so quick to judge the religion by the actions of wicked people? Yes, I believe Christianity has been used a form of mind/people control, and I believe that evil people in high places in religion have used it for selfish and evil purposes. I believe that many (almost all actually) practicing Christians and many many other followers of other religions have done very much harm and gotten into lots of wars.
BUt how does this compare with what Jesus and the bible teach?
Didn't Jesus say that most people were going to hell and would act wickedly? yes he did.
Didn't he say that there would be many would call them selves Christian but they really weren't? Yes he did.
And do the actions of almost all Christians fit with the rightousness taught in scripture? No way, they're corrupt, lost in darkness.
But the truth is that so many people refuse to recognise this because to do that would be to recognise God's righteousness, and people don't want to see that. My main point is, don't blame Christianty for what a lot of evil so called Christians did.
I think you also mentioned something about meteors bringing life from outer space.
For rocks to travel from another planet to earth carrying life, or vice versa, the rocks would have to be ejected with the force of a meteor impact, travel for extended periods of time, and be subjected to cosmic radiation. These factors make it highly unlikely that a life form could make the trip. It is remotely possible that there may be life present on nearby planets if the life was ??seeded? from earth. The SETI project, which listens for intelligent signals from outer space, and the recent Mars missions have failed to introduce any evidence. Astrobiology remains a science with no data to support it.
In any case, even if this proved to be remotely possible, think about something else. Even if life came from a meteor, it would have had to evolve on another planet first. So you're really right back at the drawing board.
What are lolcats?
Ok, so what about before man, when alllll those other creatures had that complicated genetalia that allowed the male and female to fit...
what about male and female PLANTS that have parts that FIT
everything FITS in nature, there's a beautiful balance and symetry that was probably born of the big bang... to a ying, there's a yang. To men, there's a woman. To a dick, there's a vagina, and to a Creationist, there is an Evolutionist.
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Right there!!! I understand what the bible says, but all the bible says is that god always was, and he magically doesn't apply to every other thing in existence. So what evidence is there to make me believe that God always was and created this universe as opposed to matter always being here, we just might only know the big bang as the beginning and before that everything in the universe was just sitting in space and then after the big bang life just came to be, because there just always was a potential for life to come into existence, but it didn't because it had nowhere to go. Of course that's illogical, but that same argument can be applied to god just always existing.
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I think he is using it. To impress us mostly, and show us how powerful and awesome he is. Have you ever camped out under the stars on a really clear night, and it ll just feels so huge, and you sit back and think about how your staring into the universe on a giant rock floating and spinning through space at thousands of miles an hour. Pretty powerful.
Also the angels have a lot better view than we do, and they worship him too.
And not to mention that God is a master artist.
Not everything is meant to be taken literally. But generally, if it says plainly "such and such happened" yes I believe it. Prophecy though, for example, has much symbolism.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing in God's word that has been proven wrong. I've read through the Word and I can't remember it ever saying the earth is the center of the universe, or that the earth is flat. Those errors were made by men, not God's word.
But it turns out we are actually pretty close to the center of the universe as I pointed out before.
Eh, I don't think so. Anything with the words "templar" tends to make me wary. Maybe I'll check out the description.
To put it bluntly, because everything fits, and I will not deny the Truth.
Here's one last food of thought for you. I hear the same objection to Christianity and religion over and over. Among these are " religion is just a form of mind/people control" and "religion hurts more people than it helps" and "religions causes so many wars".
How is it that so many people are so quick to judge the religion by the actions of wicked people? Yes, I believe Christianity has been used a form of mind/people control, and I believe that evil people in high places in religion have used it for selfish and evil purposes. I believe that many (almost all actually) practicing Christians and many many other followers of other religions have done very much harm and gotten into lots of wars.
BUt how does this compare with what Jesus and the bible teach?
Didn't Jesus say that most people were going to hell and would act wickedly? yes he did.
Didn't he say that there would be many would call them selves Christian but they really weren't? Yes he did.
And do the actions of almost all Christians fit with the rightousness taught in scripture? No way, they're corrupt, lost in darkness.
But the truth is that so many people refuse to recognise this because to do that would be to recognise God's righteousness, and people don't want to see that. My main point is, don't blame Christianty for what a lot of evil so called Christians did.
I think you also mentioned something about meteors bringing life from outer space.
For rocks to travel from another planet to earth carrying life, or vice versa, the rocks would have to be ejected with the force of a meteor impact, travel for extended periods of time, and be subjected to cosmic radiation. These factors make it highly unlikely that a life form could make the trip. It is remotely possible that there may be life present on nearby planets if the life was ??seeded? from earth. The SETI project, which listens for intelligent signals from outer space, and the recent Mars missions have failed to introduce any evidence. Astrobiology remains a science with no data to support it.
In any case, even if this proved to be remotely possible, think about something else. Even if life came from a meteor, it would have had to evolve on another planet first. So you're really right back at the drawing board.
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Well, the whole idea of the life coming to earth is based of the fact that there are some forms of bacteria and things like that which can survive very extreme conditions.
If God is such a powerful and incredible being, why would he need to create people just to be impressed be him? Is God really that insecure?
If he created everything, then why would there be so much scientific proof of things the contradict the bible. We know that the universe is older than the Bible says. (I'm not sure how old it says it is but from the little big of genesis that I read it sounds like a lot less than 13 billion years old). If I am correct, it sounds like in the Bible that the first two people were around pretty quickly after the universe was created. We know that there was a very long time that there were no people on earth. In fact, if the timespan of the earth were reduced to one minute, then humans would have only been around for 1/10 of a second.
About the earth being close to the center of the universe, that can't be, seeing as there is no center.
I would say personally, that if I did believe in God, I would be more of a dieist (the idea that God is a sort of "clock maker"). I think that if God really loved everybody and controlled everything, he wouldn't make such horrible things happen. It makes more sense that he could have just triggered the Big Bang and let the Universe run itself out.
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your argument for all my arguments being able to prove creationism, through the belief of evolution is a fickle argument in that it works both ways.
you use the idea of consciousness and of the love between a man and a women as proof of gods creation. yet you apply 'modern day thinking' to the entire course of the human species. we haven't always been consious beings, in that ultimately it is likely that our brains evolved to the idea we posses as consousness after our bodies became the tools they are.
it is widely believed that the use of cooked meat help us to advance in this feild and it is proved the cooking of meat provides vital nutrients to feed the brain and its development.
you say there is no proof of evolutionary adaptation to its surroundings, but this is illogical. take for example the bear. polar and grizley. both genetically almost identical yet evolutionary different to suit their natural surroundings. the same with artic cats and jungle cats of the same classification yet both adapted. even more prevelant are the insects which live in caves deep within the earth. there is a whole evolutionary chain of insects and invertibrates that have learnt to live without sunlight and are adapted too. there is diversity within all the animal species for their habitat. dawrin wasn't a sceptic of his own research at all. it is likely that the source you read and took this from was part of the properganda surrounding his work due to people like yourself.
it has already been proven that the enviroment was right to create the nessecary acids and required chemicals and subsequent reactions to create life. it is proven.
spontaneous evolution is not as far fetched as it seems, but it is important to keep it in perspective. in that our dna and rna mutates all the time and for 1000 mutant offspring that may be spawned and die before a month, there are those that are benefited by their mutations and survive to go and repopulate.
you say that man and women being alive together at the same time is one of the biggest proofs of creationism, yet in reality it is the biggest argument for evolution. if man where asexual it would have died soon. men and women exist so that dna is shared and evolution can take place. in that each offspring is the sum of two halves. therefore with only the fittest from each sex surviving the offspring is stronger. much in the same way we have breed cattle for centuries, to make them bigger beeifer and inherently inbread and stupid.
if you think about the penis and the vagina they are replicated through out the hole of nature. from plants to cattle. it is a successgul delivery method of mixing the sperm and egg. and it is the most effective in mamals, ultimately why we evolved to our status above the food chain. animals with other methods, such as fish, insects, birds didnt evolve as greately as their reproduction methods are not as advanced or sucessful as ours.
and through man and woman you apply the human logic of love, yet this is an advanced status of thinking brought about by our rising above the food chain and stepping out of physical evolution. do you think early cave man fell in love or just spread his oats because he was the strongest and the desire to reproduce is somehting buried deep in our genetic code.
the trouble is the bible is at worst 2000 years old, granted the dead sea scrolls are alod older but the modern version you read from are around that age. but wait, i just want to be clear, get your copy, is it the king james version ?? so thats the one revised in 1611. which is my point. the bible and the logic you work from is as all religons are wrote from man, so unherenantly biased.
they negate the spiritual side of the human species, because and this may shock you i do believe in a god. just i don't believe in the bullshit around it. the bible is a collection of stories, born of a time to comfort, compell and help the masses understand the world. but what is missed is the point. love peace and respect. that is the true nature of god.
the idea god created is flawed. creationism is unlikely. we didnt just appear. we just didnt. i would rather believe aliens tampered with our frontal lobe than we just apperaed, becuase if we are created through gods divine inspiration and we are all made in the image of god, then he made us fundementally flawed. he is a rapist, a murdered, a biggot, he is gay, he is bisexual, he is a pedophile, he is lost, he hurts, he doesnt believe in himself, he doesnt offer eternal forgivness and he creates wars.
because if he created us, if he did, why did he make the flaw in us to be evil, why even give us that choice. if he is all knowing, if he is all seeing then he knew exactly what would happen, he knew it would take us milenia to understand him, he knew we would kill the non believers and he knew that his word would be split and manipulated into many different sects, who preach and wage wars in his name.
becuase if we are god, then god works on human logic and therefore is flawed by all the above points.
its not right, god is energy, god is light, god is the life we have for a short time. nothing before nothing after.
but god is such a human projection, this is the way of the universe, this is the universe.
it is not wrong to have faith and aploud you for it, we live in times of confusion, anger, division and apathy. this is dangerous, but more dangerous that all that is blind faith.
my best wishes to you
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This is one of the best threads I've ever read!
Also is the reason I joined. I look forward to discussing various topics with fellow members.
Looks as if we have some educated people amongst us!
I haven't read enough to post my opinion on this topic but there is no way we are alone in the universe. As to what happened before the big bang??? No idea yet. Give me a few days....I'll figure it out and get back to you:D
All the best and peace..
it's so hard to picture nothing... because before the big bang, it's very possible that there WAS nothing....
what if there wasn't a universe until something came along that required a habitat... perhaps it never was, until it was needed. AH!
can you picture nothing?
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ps, excellent writing Snowblind. I couldn't agree more.
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there had to have been something before the big bang because if there was nothing before the big bang then the big bang would not have happened.
you know what im sayin' ??
I'm a human, and I prefer to think of myself as an evolved human. We as humans should have evolved throughout time. We used to not believe in God until the Romans invented it (Christianity) as a tool to oppress people and kill the ones who didn't agree. I don't believe anything from the Bible as to me it's fiction. I believe in evolution, and I also believe there are things that can not be explained. I'm not saying there isn't some "God", I just do not believe in the personification of the Christian God. I've tried to answer these questions myself, but finally gave up and am just thankful that cannabis is here as well.