Final round.
If all of my previous questions are truly believed (minus the sarcasm), then why is it so difficult for theists to believe that science is able to answer the seemingly obscure, absurd, and seemingly insurmountable questions of the universe? If a bush can burn and talk, or if a man can rise from the grave, why can't a universe start with a bang, or why is it so difficult to believe that creatures can evolve from different forms???
2006-07-12 06:55:14 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
John S.
Are you a complete sociopath, or are you just a prick to everyone?
Don't waste my time, or the time of other respondants. If you don't have anything intelligent to say, go back to playing in the sandbox and let the grown-ups talk.
2006-07-12 07:15:11 · update #1
It is not a matter of which story can better explain the universe; any myth or story, whether scientific or not, can do that. I think that you are perhaps missing the point.
It is a matter of probabilities, not possibilities. I cannot scientifically "prove" what happened in the past (that is, before human history) any more than you can, because no one was around to see it, so I have to ask myself which explanation is most likely to be true?
I don't know if this answers your question or not, but one of the main reasons that I believe in Christianity is that the people who knew Jesus were willing to be tortured to death rather than change their story that they saw Jesus return from the dead.
If the apostles were lying about seeing the resurrected Christ, then why didn't they take back their story when they were individually being tortured to death? Every one of the apostles (Except John, who died a natural death in exile on Patmos), were killed for their faith. Wouldn't a liar recant this story to save his own life?
What did the apostles have to gain by making it all up? What good does fame do for a dead person?
I accept their story because the witnesses were creditable.
Why can't non-religious people accept that?
2006-07-12 07:06:51 · answer #1 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You still face the problem of an infinite regress. You are basically asserting that science can explain everything. The problem is all of science is cause and effect. However, can you explain what caused the big bang to happen? If so, can you then explain what caused that? There is an infinite pattern of causality that would imply that there was no begin to time. That is contradictory to the second law of thermodynamics which states that the universe is running out of usable energy. Assuming there is a fixed amount of energy in the universe, if there was no initial state then essentially after a fixed period of time after an infinite time ago the universe will run out of energy, which would have already happened because relative to now that was an infinite amount of time ago (basic math asserts that -infinity + constant is still -infinity). If there were an unlimited amount of energy in the universe, then we would not be running out of it and the law is still not true.
Therefore by asserting science explains everything you have just contradicted a basic law of science. So if you are willing to accept that the second law of thermodynamics is wrong, then you need to throw out everything you've learned so far and start over because that is one of the most fundamental laws of the universe, at which point the assertation looks foolish compared to theism to even the most simple-minded person.
2006-07-12 07:09:37 · answer #2 · answered by Alex T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do come from lifeforms that evolve. It is natural for things to improve over time because conditions are never stable. All the physical things did come from an event eons ago in our past that creates what is here now. I completely agree with you but there is something inside all these lifeforms, some kind of conscious energy that holds it all together and I'm not saying that from any religious point of view. I support the theory of a "god" though.
2006-07-12 07:16:55 · answer #3 · answered by B-Truth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because a burning bush and men rising from the grave were in a 5,000 year-old book! Take that science!!
2006-07-12 07:00:23 · answer #4 · answered by jerkass 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the big bang never occurred, this thoery ran into trouble with law-update your science. Very few scientist believe in Macro-evolution, get up to date.
2006-07-12 07:01:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says that the Big Bang wasn't God's method of creating the Universe (which it was). Who says evolution wasn't God's way of creating life as we know it today (which it was). Science is the study of God and how he works if you ask me (and you did). Theism, mysticism and science all work together to explain the multiverse as God made it.
2006-07-12 07:01:08 · answer #6 · answered by zharantan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People will believe in what they believe. I choose to believe in The Word of God. I have faith that everything He says is true, and He says that nonbelievers will not believe in The Truth. Jesus loves you.
2006-07-12 07:01:21 · answer #7 · answered by cindy j 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Big Bang THEORY? Evolution THEORY?
Science must prove it, else it remains a theory. Therefore, Science has not proven either.
Still don't have it straight.
2006-07-12 07:02:49 · answer #8 · answered by gg 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that evolution is just another religion, but is allowed ti be taught in public schools.
2006-07-12 08:11:27 · answer #9 · answered by 2shrrp4u 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋