1.Life has ying and yang. Atheists and believers can believe what they like. Debate is good. Vitriolic comments are useless and a sign of an oppressive mentality.
2.Once facts are known as facts, they should be accepted by all reasonable and objective people.
3.One cannot prove God exists. One believes in God by faith. All religions are faith-based. There are many reasons to believe in a creator.
4.When religion becomes a political power, it is a force for oppression. Thus, effort must be exerted to keep religion out of political power.
5.God is truth. Science pursues the truth. Reason and faith are synergistic, not antagonistic.
6.Macro-evolution is clearly visible in the fossil record. How Macro Evolution happen is still unproven. Random chance and natural selection are a theory that requires faith to believe in.
7.People can have a purpose without believing in a Creator. Without a creator, philosophy cannot "justify" in the grand scheme of nature, that life is meaningful.
2006-10-06 07:07:27 · 5 answers · asked by Cogito Sum 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Many good scientists also believe in a creator. Just because you believe in God, does not exclude you from being a reason, and fact based individual.
Case in point: calculate with the most optimistic assumptions you can the random component for any biological mutation that creates any new function. Since the probabilities are impossible, even most favorable, then there cannot be a random component, thus, a pervasive natural force must exist, that has not been detected yet. To me, to believe in it is faith.
2006-10-06 07:23:27 · update #1
yes,
there should only be one axiom,
no non-christians allowed
JESUS IS LORD.
2006-10-06 07:09:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I don't know if you'll find anyone who believes in all seven. I'll go with you on 1, 2, 4, 7. I don't like 3 and 5 largely for semantic reasons, and I highly disagree with 6. Still I think I'm closer to accepting them than a lot of other will be.
2006-10-06 07:10:57 · answer #2 · answered by XYZ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"5.God is truth...."
If #3 is correct, then #5 is ridiculous.
You can't claim to not be able to prove the existance of something, but then start making claims about the nature of that something.
"Random chance and natural selection are a theory that requires faith to believe in."
No, because these are testable theories. Thus, no faith is necessary.
the rest seem ok, though.
2006-10-06 07:11:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm right here because i don't understand the position you stay and that i visit't knock on your door at an inconveneint time. i'm also kidding. *drink* Yeehaw! I did my first decrease and paste for an answer! Lord, I hate those 1/2 mile lengthy decrease and paste solutions!
2016-12-04 08:23:27 · answer #4 · answered by deparvine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OMG not another fundamentalist, I would add one axiom though, NO QUESTIONS NOT RELATING TO RELIGIONS, ESPECIALLY "WHAT SHOULD I DO..." questions
with metta,
Shinai_inaozuke
2006-10-06 07:10:49 · answer #5 · answered by shinai_inaozuke 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋