Which is more beautiful?

Question

The complexity with which the Solar system came into existence as described by astronomers

or

"In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Answer 1

Whenever I have the chance to escape the city, I start to really understand where religion came from.

I lie on the ground and look at the absolute forest of stars up there. I see, like a textbook illustration, the zodiac belt that some people invented to give order to, and explain the 'white dots' up there. I see a deer looking timidly and curiously in my direction and can understand the urge that some had to imbue that nobile species with 'supernatural' abilities.

I can understand why, devoid of any other explanation, people at one time said 'these things were all created by somebody much bigger than us'.

But scientists have shown us things infinitely more fascinating. They have shown us that each of those white dots is in itself a universe bigger than we can comprehend. They have shown us that the deer shares an enormous amount of genetic information with us and that its human-like glances in my direction are the same legacy of our common ancestor as my glances in its direction.

This gives me enormous peace. It shows me that I am but a very small cog in an incomprehensibly large machine, but it shows me that I am completely 'of' it, not 'seperate from' or 'better than' it.

That something so great and wonderful as our world and our universe could be created by someone or something who then went on to tell us what we should wear and how we should make love insults the beauty of the universe. It takes all of existence and tries to cram it into a human mind.

Two thousand years ago, I could understand it. The God concept widened our vistas and our comprehension of the universe. Today, the God concept limits it. Science has shown us that the universe is more beautiful than God. And, unlike God, it is utterly and demonstrably real.

The universe is more magnificent than the gods we have created to fill it.

Answer 2

Beautiful? Heh. I'm actually concerned with which is more accurate...... from the looks of things, they're both neck and neck.

Seraph, ol' buddy, I'm gonna do you a favor. I'm gonna do like one of those old guys on Dragonball Z and raise your power level so much you turn into a Super Saiyan. Eat this.....

The only Scientific Theories that are trustworthy are the ones that can be used to make sellable merchandise. I'd bet the barn on the scientific theories used to make the TV, the Microwave, the MRI machine, the practices of Brain Surgery, Pharmaceuticals, Rockets, liquor, aerobics, mathematics, weapons of mass destruction, or anything else that some guy somewhere is getting rich providing to the masses right now...... but any theory that is useless outside of a University or a heated debate between Eccentric Scientists is very likely to be dubious at best.

Most of these theories rank right up there with "In the beginning, GOD created the Heavens and the Earth..."

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Answer 3

In the Beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Answer 4

In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth Genisis 1:1 the word of God is way more beutiful than science

Answer 5

What is "beauty"? I'd say that without any ultimate hope in which to ground the phenomenal world, it isn't beautiful at all -- it's simply what it is, a structured but ultimately random and transitory association of particles in various energy states. Here is where the theistic worldview again proves that it is more adequate to the *totality* of human experience, which includes the experience of beauty and of meaning. A theist can coherently believe that the cosmologist's account of the emergence of the solar system is quite close to what really happened, whereas an unbeliever must ultimately deny that such ideas as "beauty" or "meaning" have any objective reality whatsoever.

Answer 6

The TRUTH, which of course means the complexity with which the solar system came into existence as described by astronomers.

Answer 7

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. It implies and means that we were created on purpose and for a purpose surrounded with such extravagence, beauty and wonder - not just by a random act of nature.

Answer 8

The complexity of the solar system, the complexity of the human brain, the microbes, everything points to an intelligent creator, God.

Answer 9

Denise is retarded. I find the layout of the universe far more convincing than a 2000 year old VERY BADLY WRITTEN book. However, many theists try and use it to their advantage, but most of the time they are wrong. They try and say that this particular orbit had to be exactly right here for life to start, but water will remain liquid from between about 20 million miles closer to the sun and to about 25 million miles from mars, so that is a 43 million mile span, and seeing that the sun is only 90 million miles away, we have a lot of room.

Answer 10

if you mean the standard big bang...
dont be surprized if the big bang is abandoned in the 21st century as not heling helpful rearding the observed data and having too many anomolies with the observed data. The horizon problem being just one problem the big bang doesn't allow enough time for the universe to be as contasnt in tmeperature as far as background mocrowave radiation for example... and only one example of a serious problem with it.

The standard big bang view is a little too much like pullin a rabbit out of a hat, without a hat, without a rabbit, without a magician.... it's a leap into absurdity

I like the under statement in Genesis "...He made the stars also..."

Wow! What a God !