I am very proud of you. It was just a few years ago that you would have been arguing that the Earth was only several thousand years old. Can I ask what you read that made you change your mind? Also, it seems you believe in the Big Bang. How do you reconcile that with your disbelief in evolution?
These are serious questions meant for discussion, not to start a flame war.
KActually Big Bang Theory has a lot more in common with the Biblical story of
creation that does the historical view of an infinite universe that scientists
held for centuries.
I'm not sure what disbelief in universal common descent has to do with
believing in big bang cosmology?
Was there time or motion before the universe existed? Or has it always existed since eternity past?
How many universes are there?
Thermodynamics says that heat always flows to cold, so if the universe had been around forever, all temperature would be uniform. Since virtually all scientists believe the universe had a beginning, how does it make sense that nothingness exploded and matter created itself out of nothing. It doesn't make sense. God created the world supernaturally. How did God exist throughout eternity with no beginning? I don't know but he's supernatural and not bound by the laws of this dimension.
Actually I think we would be frozen if it had been around forever - check me on that though. How come people use "god" as a way to explain the unexplainable? What happens when this question is answered about the universes origins?
Stop confusing can't explain with won't explain. It's pretty ignorant to think we won't be able to explain it one day. Do you think that people from 2000 years ago would be able to understand the physics behind a thermo-nuclear explosion? I am pretty sure if some goat herder on a hill saw this display of power he would say it was god. No difference between this and you sitting on the couch in your underwear eating Cheetos trying to explain the origins of the universe.
there will never ever be time travel....if so there would have been someone that has come back to our time and not hidden their origins.
the only way to kill that theory is that they also have those MIB memory erasers in the future and if they are found out they erase our memory.
Stop confusing can't explain with won't explain. It's pretty ignorant to think we won't be able to explain it one day. Do you think that people from 2000 years ago would be able to understand the physics behind a thermo-nuclear explosion? I am pretty sure if some goat herder on a hill saw this display of power he would say it was god. No difference between this and you sitting on the couch in your underwear eating Cheetos trying to explain the origins of the universe.
Stop confusing can't explain with won't explain. It's pretty ignorant to think we won't be able to explain it one day. Do you think that people from 2000 years ago would be able to understand the physics behind a thermo-nuclear explosion? I am pretty sure if some goat herder on a hill saw this display of power he would say it was god. No difference between this and you sitting on the couch in your underwear eating Cheetos trying to explain the origins of the universe.
Stop confusing atheism with intellectual superiority.
Why do half of the brightest minds in science and mathematics choose not to identify with a religion at all? On top of that, significantly less than that 50% claim to be fundamentalists...something like 10%...that includes other religions besides Christianity as well.
Why does practically everyone in a poor, rural, uneducated area identify themselves as being some sort of fundamentalist with practically no-one claiming atheism?
They don't match up perfectly, but there is definitely a link between people with above average intelligence and atheism.
What you see as being perfect and beautiful others see as being silly. I am glad you have found all the answers, but I am more glad that there are people out there not like you who aren't afraid to ask and seek the answers to difficult questions.
For some, it's because they don't want the moral responsibility that comes with the fact that there is a God. For others, they keep their beliefs private because the people at the top of "science" have it in their dogma that there is no God, and anyone that mentions intelligent design gets blackballed in their profession. They cling to 1800's evolutionary explanation, even after we've discovered that there is intelligent DNA coding in every cell of the human body.Why do half of the brightest minds in science and mathematics choose not to identify with a religion at all? On top of that, significantly less than that 50% claim to be fundamentalists...something like 10%...that includes other religions besides Christianity as well.
Why does practically everyone in a poor, rural, uneducated area identify themselves as being some sort of fundamentalist with practically no-one claiming atheism?
They don't match up perfectly, but there is definitely a link between people with above average intelligence and atheism.
What you see as being perfect and beautiful others see as being silly. I am glad you have found all the answers, but I am more glad that there are people out there not like you who aren't afraid to ask and seek the answers to difficult questions.
+1 here. Nothing against Illini and the other views expressed. But humans can not get their arms around these concepts today. Will that be the case in 10k years? Maybe yes, maybe no, I dunno. I just know never say never with respect to finding an explanation.
I'm pretty sure cevemen didn't envision Bic lighters...
For some, it's because they don't want the moral responsibility that comes with the fact that there is a God. For others, they keep their beliefs private because the people at the top of "science" have it in their dogma that there is no God, and anyone that mentions intelligent design gets blackballed in their profession. They cling to 1800's evolutionary explanation, even after we've discovered that there is intelligent DNA coding in every cell of the human body.
As far as you claiming I haven't thought about difficult questions and sought truth, well I guess that's more proof of the arrogance of atheists......if you don't agree with them, you're an idiot that hasn't thought about life's difficult questions. It's just like the leftist "we love everyone as long as you agree with us on everything, including gay marriage."
"The fool says in his heart that there is no God." Is that arrogant enough for you?
The only difficult questions you ask yourself pertain to which super size combo you are going to scarf down for supper. Please do us all a favor if you manage to get laid - wear protection. I would hate to see a child subjected to the same brainwashing you have been through.
I'm sorry some people in the church must have hurt you. But seriously, don't be an arrogant dick.The only difficult questions you ask yourself pertain to which super size combo you are going to scarf down for supper. Please do us all a favor if you manage to get laid - wear protection. I would hate to see a child subjected to the same brainwashing you have been through.