All categories - 1 July 2006

2006-07-01 03:30:38 · 9 answers · asked by nechannew 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-01 03:30:36 · 9 answers · asked by sharon w 1 in Dogs

Hi
Should I go with allot of different sites with content or with one site with allot more content. How can I earn with ADSENSE - eperience please- not looking for special programs advertised. how much $ did you really make and what type of sites did you do it with. Is there a special way to get people who traffic your site to also click on the ADSENSE. Also which type of ASENS ads work the best- there are allot of different choices- click, content, referrals and more???? Thanks- Need some money fast.

2006-07-01 03:30:33 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computer Networking

2006-07-01 03:30:22 · 16 answers · asked by MEEE 2 in Mental Health

In asian countries most of time people won't have sex intercourse before their marrage but my boyfriend ask me to make love before our marrage and I dont feel like doing that before marrage.Shall I end up my affair with him?

2006-07-01 03:30:15 · 26 answers · asked by Chaturika 1 in Singles & Dating

I wanted soldiers in uniform cos i like to be one.. most especially gay "ones"

2006-07-01 03:30:14 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Military

dont u think that all of these r for story books and you cant find a true love now,these days,i myself cant trust any1 more.its really hard 2 do.like to be loved 2 share my love with true &nice person, but whr is he? what about you? do u agree with me or not, do u have a true love now ?u trust her/him? if u r in this good relation, ur so lucky

2006-07-01 03:30:11 · 7 answers · asked by ___ãÑãhà 3 in Friends

2006-07-01 03:30:07 · 24 answers · asked by sister_godzilla 6 in Other - Society & Culture

im worried because i need it removed now and i want to know how much it cost , its flat and i want it removed by laser , PLEASE HELP ME OUT!

2006-07-01 03:30:01 · 7 answers · asked by BOBOA 1 in Other - Beauty & Style

2006-07-01 03:29:49 · 46 answers · asked by Sonia B 1 in Family

i like les trois accords so u can get a feeling of wat gud french rock is

2006-07-01 03:29:45 · 5 answers · asked by scott_h_313 2 in Music

2006-07-01 03:29:44 · 9 answers · asked by bglew 2 in Trying to Conceive

I have a friend that I have genuine feelings for. I have had these feelings for years now, in fact from the very first moment I laid eyes on him and I'm afraid to tell him because I'm afraid of the worst. What do I do?

2006-07-01 03:29:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

how do you use gimp?

2006-07-01 03:29:38 · 3 answers · asked by The Asian Angel Cutie 4 in Programming & Design

It takes place in Africa. A pilot throws an empty coke bottle out of his plane while flying overhead. THe tribe there thinks the gods sent it. They use it to help them with work and to provide entertainment, but then everybody wants it at the same time. They start stealing the bottle from each other and using it to hurt each other. The leader decides to go to the end of the world to give it back to the gods and ends up having a few adventures.

2006-07-01 03:29:30 · 12 answers · asked by kjc1993 4 in Movies

past or present is cool..thanks alot!

2006-07-01 03:29:27 · 9 answers · asked by *toona* 7 in Music

2006-07-01 03:29:25 · 7 answers · asked by sacred_90 2 in Other - Food & Drink

I'm feeling a little bluesy...

2006-07-01 03:29:20 · 13 answers · asked by Patchouli Pammy 7 in Other - Arts & Humanities

2006-07-01 03:29:20 · 4 answers · asked by alie1974 1 in Hockey

A PRACTICAL MAN'S PROOF OF GOD

The existence of God is a subject that has occupied schools of philosophy and theology for thousands of years. Most of the time, these debates have revolved around all kinds of assumptions and definitions. Philosophers will spend a lifetime arguing about the meaning of a word and never really get there. One is reminded of the college student who was asked how his philosophy class was going. He replied that they had not done much because when the teacher tried to call roll, the kids kept arguing about whether they existed or not.

Most of us who live and work in the real world do not concern ourselves with such activities. We realize that such discussions may have value and interest in the academic world, but the stress and pressure of day-to-day life forces us to deal with a very pragmatic way of making decisions. If I ask you to prove to me that you have $2.00, you would show it to me. Even in more abstract things we use common sense and practical reasoning. If I ask you whether a certain person is honest or not, you do not flood the air with dissertations on the relative nature of honesty; you would give me evidence one way or the other. The techniques of much of the philosophical arguments that go on would eliminate most of engineering and technology if they were applied in those fields.

The purpose of this brief study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective. To do this, we are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real. If you do not believe that you exist, you have bigger problems than this study will entail and you will have to look elsewhere.

THE BEGINNING

If we do exist, there are only two possible explanations as to how our existence came to be. Either we had a beginning or we did not have a beginning. The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1 :1). The atheist has always maintained that there was no beginning. The idea is that matter has always existed in the form of either matter or energy; and all that has happened is that matter has been changed from form to

form, but it has always been. The Humanist Manifesto says, "Matter is self-existing and not created," and that is a concise statement of the atheist's belief.

The way we decide whether the atheist is correct or not is to see what science has discovered about this question. The picture below on the left represents our part of the cosmos. Each of the disk shaped objects is a galaxy like our Milky Way. All of these galaxies are moving relative to each other. Their movement has a very distinct pattern which causes the distance between the galaxies to get greater with every passing day. If we had three galaxies located at positions A, B. and C in the second diagram below, and if they are located as shown, tomorrow they will be further apart. The triangle they form will be bigger. The day after tomorrow the triangle will be bigger yet. We live in an expanding universe that gets bigger and bigger and bigger with every passing day.



Now let us suppose that we made time run backwards! If we are located at a certain distance today, then yesterday we were closer together. The day before that, we were still closer. Ultimately, where must all the galaxies have been? At a point! At the beginning! At what scientists call a singularity!

A second proof is seen in the energy sources that fuel the cosmos. The picture to the right is a picture of the sun. Like all stars, the sun generates its energy by a nuclear process known as thermonuclear fusion. Every second that passes, the sun compresses 564 million tons of hydrogen into 560 million tons of helium with 4 million tons of matter released as energy. In spite of that tremendous consumption of fuel, the sun has only used up 2% of the hydrogen it had the day it came into existence. This incredible furnace is not a process confined to the sun. Every star in the sky generates its energy in the same way. Throughout the cosmos there are 25 quintillion stars, each converting hydrogen into helium, thereby reducing the total amount of hydrogen in the cosmos. Just think about it! If everywhere in the cosmos hydrogen is being consumed and if the process has been going on forever, how much hydrogen should be left?

Suppose I attempt to drive my automobile without putting any more gas (fuel) into it. As I drive and drive, what is eventually going to happen? I am going to run out of gas I If the cosmos has been here forever, we would have run out of hydrogen long ago! The fact is, however, that the sun still has 98% of its original hydrogen. The fact is that hydrogen is the most abundant material in the universe! Everywhere we look in space we can see the hydrogen 21 cm line in the spectrum_a piece of light only given off by hydrogen. This could not be unless we had a beginning!

A third scientific proof that the atheist is wrong is seen in the second law of thermodynamics. In any closed system, things tend to become disordered. If an automobile is driven for years and years without repair, for example, it will become so disordered that it would not run any more. Getting old is simple conformity to the second law of thermodynamics. In space, things also get old. Astronomers refer to the aging process as heat death. If the cosmos is "everything that ever was or is or ever will be," as Dr. Carl Sagan is so fond of saying, nothing could be added to it to improve its order or repair it. Even a universe that expands and collapses and expands again forever would die because it would lose light and heat each time it expanded and rebounded.

The atheist's assertion that matter/energy is eternal is scientifically wrong. The biblical assertion that there was a beginning is scientifically correct.

THE CAUSE

If we know the creation has a beginning, we are faced with another logical question_was the creation caused or was it not caused? The Bible states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Not only does the Bible maintain that there was a cause_a creation_but it also tells us what the cause was. It was God. The atheist tells us that "matter is self-existing and not created." If matter had a beginning and yet was uncaused, one must logically maintain that something would have had to come into existence out of nothing. From empty space with no force, no matter, no energy, and no intelligence, matter would have to become existent. Even if this could happen by some strange new process unknown to science today, there is a logical problem.

In order for matter to come out of nothing, all of our scientific laws dealing with the conservation of matter/energy would have to be wrong, invalidating all of chemistry. All of our laws of conservation of angular momentum would have to be wrong, invalidating all of physics. All of our laws of conservation of electric charge would have to be wrong, invalidating all of electronics and demanding that your TV set not work!! Your television set may not work, but that is not the reason! In order to believe matter is uncaused, one has to discard known laws and principles of science. No reasonable person is going to do this simply to maintain a personal atheistic position.

The atheist's assertion that matter is eternal is wrong. The atheist's assertion that the universe is uncaused and selfexisting is also incorrect The Bible's assertion that there was a beginning which was caused is supported strongly by the available scientific evidence.

THE DESIGN

If we know that the creation had a beginning and we know that the beginning was caused, there is one last question for us to answer--what was the cause? The Bible tells us that God was the cause. We are further told that the God who did the causing did so with planning and reason and logic. Romans 1:20 tells us that we can know God is

"through the things he has made." The atheist, on the other hand, will try to convince us that we are the product of chance. Julian Huxley once said:

We are as much a product of blind forces as is the falling of a stone to earth or the ebb and flow of the tides. We have just happened, and man was made flesh by a long series of singularly beneficial accidents.
The subject of design has been one that has been explored in many different ways. For most of us, simply looking at our newborn child is enough to rule out chance. Modern-day scientists like Paul Davies and Frederick Hoyle and others are raising elaborate objections to the use of chance in explaining natural phenomena. A principle of modern science has emerged in the 1980s called "the anthropic principle." The basic thrust of the anthropic principle is that chance is simply not a valid mechanism to explain the atom or life. If chance is not valid, we are constrained to reject Huxley's claim and to realize that we are the product of an intelligent God.

THE NEXT STEP

We have seen a practical proof of God's existence in this brief study. A flood of questions arise at this point. Which God are we talking about? Where did God come from? Why did God create us? How did God create us?

All of these and many more are answered in the same way_by looking at the evidence in a practical, common sense way. If you are interested in pursuing these things in more detail, we invite you to contact us. We have books, audio tapes, video tapes, correspondence courses, and booklets available and all can be obtained on loan without cost. Just request our catalog from:

DOES GOD EXIST

2006-07-01 03:29:03 · 10 answers · asked by Ihatebush 1 in Religion & Spirituality

pickle and peanutbutter?
jelly on meatloaf?
pork rinds with bean dip?
fruit loops with chocolate syrup?
what is your odd combo that people just need to try to see how good it is?
for me,it's milkyway candybars and frito cornchips.(have not had this in years but its good)

2006-07-01 03:28:58 · 21 answers · asked by deb in ohio 3 in Other - Food & Drink

i use a soil-like substrate and i dont want to get mites
i mist my crab every day and all this water builds up at the bottom

2006-07-01 03:28:56 · 5 answers · asked by mustafa 2 in Other - Pets

I was watching superstar last night with my grandma, and when it came to the part where she's on the stage singing, my grandma asked me what the name of the song was. After that she got green paint all over her. Can anyone tell me the name of the song?

2006-07-01 03:28:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

2006-07-01 03:28:42 · 1 answers · asked by c_jessopp 1 in TiVO & DVRs

OR double takes, rubber necking ETC...WHY DON'T THEY JUST APPROACH HER??

2006-07-01 03:28:41 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2006-07-01 03:28:35 · 6 answers · asked by jumanjej 1 in Singles & Dating

I heard from another alum that one of our professors committed suicide, but I cannot find anything about it in the local media. What should I do to verify this? Is it kosher to write another faculty member and ask what happened?

2006-07-01 03:28:29 · 3 answers · asked by poohu812many 5 in Higher Education (University +)

2006-07-01 03:28:23 · 16 answers · asked by DIESEL44 2 in Other - Family & Relationships

this hornet/wasp is a mettalic blue but has the body of a wasp. ive seen it many times but now that ive been stung by it i want to know what it is. i have a insect id book but its not in there. does anybody know what it is and where it originates from

2006-07-01 03:28:06 · 3 answers · asked by outdoorsman 1 in Other - Science

2006-07-01 03:27:54 · 13 answers · asked by foot f 1 in Singles & Dating