Or are you having a laugh?
2006-08-15 02:51:46 · 35 answers · asked by thedene 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
People choose cremationism for a variety of reasons, including religious reasons, other personal reasons, environmental reasons, and cost. Others merely from a terror of being buried alive.
Some people find they prefer cremationism for other reasons. For some people it is because they are not attracted to traditional burial. The thought of a long, slow decomposition process is unappealing to some, and they find that they prefer cremationism for that reason.
Other people view cremationism as a way of simplifying their funeral process. These people view a traditional burial as an unneeded complication of their funeral process, and thus chose cremationism to make their services as simple as possible.
2006-08-15 02:56:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well - consider this - if you don't believe in a creator (and creation) then: In the beginning there was nothing, then it exploded (producing the big bang). From this nothingness a random series of meaningless events with no purpose produced humanity and all the life on the planet. Our total existence is therefore meaningless and without any underlying purpose. Now which takes more faith to believe in - personally I think evolution takes a greater leap of faith than creation (and a creator God). If you want to find out the scientific arguments for creation (and there are plenty) - read 'The case for a creator, by Lee Strobel'.
2006-08-15 04:11:00 · answer #2 · answered by jumpace321 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel that some of the people who have answered this need to consider the difference between belief and knowledge. You might "believe" that the world was created in 6 days but you don't "know" it. there's no evidence whatsoever for this viewpoint. On the other hand, whilst there are still many questions and gaps in our knowledge, there is a vast body of evidence for the big bang, many billion year old evolutionary universe. The problem for some of these people is that they consider the bible - with no corroborative evidenve - to be "true". Why? If you claim it to be true, then it's up to you to prove your point, and that, nobody has ever succeeded in doing (apart from "proving" it to the ill educated masses who couldn't understand the ramifications of either stance anyway.
2006-08-17 03:46:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
...and then, in the middle of nothingness a big explosion happened and matter was formed. Do you believe in that? How can we explain the universe forming out of nothing? Whatever made it happened it was an 'original force'. You can name it as you want to (big bang, for example), but what was the cause.. No science has ever explain yet what was there before 'the beginning'. Sure, evolution can only explain what happened after live was already moving around.
having a laugh? Nobody can laugh at any of both theories. because nobody knows. Yet.
And also... the two theories are not incompatible.
Just a quote:
"If you're religious, this is like looking at God."(1)
A mystic, describing his vision in a trance? A poet, looking at the beauty of nature and seeing God? No, a Berkeley astrophysicist, commenting on the data he was making public in 1992 that seemed to confirm a basic expectation of the Big Bang theory.
2006-08-15 03:01:00 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes. In 6 LITERAL days and rested on the 7th. Any other interpretation, gap theory, millions of years, evolution etc is solely man's OPINION and NOT scripture. Evolution doesn't hold water. Evolution is solely dependent on the big bang theory. The big bang and evolution together can not answer...
where the two pieces of matter that collided came from;
what the ACTUAL probability of two of these correct pieces of matter meeting at the right time, at the right place, at the right speed, at the right angle, with the right atmospheric or lack thereof to produce things as we know it;
how a cell in the ocean morphed itself into a fishlike creature;
how this fishlike creature began to breathe air and why it would want to do so;
how and why it decided to go on land;
how it morphed itself into all the different species;
how out of this it was able to morph into a human being which is the only creature on earth with the ability to speak logically, reason, and feel emotion;
how plants survived before they "learned" photosenthesis;
why the holy grail of evolution (Berkley) says on its site that this is what the BELIEVE to be true but is not fact;
And all the gap theories etc about the Bible have as many holes in them too.
The is only ONE True God.
http://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html
2006-08-15 03:14:45 · answer #5 · answered by green93lx 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately, though it is hard to believe, there are many people who believe in Creationism, both old Earth and young Earth Creationism. That's because humans have a nearly infinite ability to rationalize away things they don't want to be true, and they really don't want evolution to be true.
2006-08-15 02:56:31 · answer #6 · answered by nondescript 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, God created the heavens and the earth. I'm genuinely convinced of this...it takes as much faith to believe that we're "evolved" from monkeys as to acknowledge the creative force of a loving God.
No, I'm not having a laugh...
2006-08-15 03:00:50 · answer #7 · answered by stronzo5785 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I believe that we were created by a bunch of laughing idiots.
2006-08-15 03:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by Stammerman! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, to nondescript, it's all about denial.
To the asker- Of course there's people who believe in creationism. What do you believe in? Absolutely nothing worth living for? Yourself? Good luck with that.
I KNOW you will all bow down to Christ one day and see His TRUTH.
2006-08-15 03:01:17 · answer #9 · answered by mommaof4 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A lot of people do, Kent Hovind is one example of someone who believes that the word for word literal account of Genesis is true. He then proceeds to butcher science so he can fit it into his worldview. My question is, if he believes it's true, why must he justify it with pseudoscience?
2006-08-15 02:58:24 · answer #10 · answered by ChooseRealityPLEASE 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋