Purpose and design:God made everything becuase He had a specific purpose and design is based on that purpose
Ex:The Penus(sperm) and Vigina(egg)
Or
Big Bang:It just happen, and there is no specific purpose or design;everything is just randomness
We need something to set stuff on,so we make tables;we want to si down,but not on the ground so we make chairs.We need better ground to travel on so we pave the ground
Again purpose and design?Or Big Bang and randomness?Exlplain you answer please?
Ephisians 3:9-And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:
James :12-But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
2006-12-27 05:36:43 · 15 answers · asked by Maurice H 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Concerning the debate going on about intelligent design and evolution: is it possible that the final answer about which of these two seemingly opposite ideas is correct could simply be yes?
With one position firmly held by the believers and the other just as fearlessly defended by the non-believers, if you happen to be in a position somewhere near the middle, it does not look all that complex. From this position, you wonder why either-or has to be the answer.
If you believe that some higher being created the universe by intelligent design, what more elegant and intelligent design could there have been than a self-regulating system that continually checks its own errors and makes its own corrections in mid-stream as an integral part of the process.
This all seems quite logical to me although it probably won’t satisfy the believers because they are afraid to see any truth other than the one they have been told to believe in. Inversely it certainly won’t satisfy the non-believers because it leaves them stuck with a god that they are so obviously terrified of.
To sum up this view from the center, it might be most easily be explained by saying perhaps the designer was intelligent. Problem is, the designer was likely so intelligent that those seeking to prove that it is intelligently designed may be incapable of ever understand it well enough to see it for the elegant self regulating design that it has always been.
The nonbelievers will be similarly handicapped due to the internal terror the have about the idea that there may be a God. Neither side being able to leave their entrenched position for fear they may have to admit they were wrong. While the rest of us stand by trying to figure out what all the fuss is about. Personally I don’t think anyone is wrong, I just feel both sides are about half right.
Love and blessings
don
2006-12-27 05:39:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
It's really very, very simple:
There is no evidence of any kind that there is any purpose or design...not of humans, the earth, the solar system, the universe, or anything else.
The arguments by the pro-design folks are endless, and they're always via metaphor or imagination: "if you see a watch on the ground, do you assume it got there by itself? Of course not, someone designed it!" Such arguments don't *prove* anything, nor provide any evidence for a designer or a purpose.
Some people look at the world and the things in it, and because there is complexity they *assume* there had to be a designer behind it all. Fine, think that way if you like. But there is NO EVIDENCE of a designer -- just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it came from god. And frankly, if *I* were an all-powerful, all-knowing god, I could come up with a LOT of better ways to design things...I'd make humans not so susecptible to disease. I'd fixe our eyes so they're not only 1/2 as sensitive as they could be with a slight design change, and so our retinas didn't detach so easily. I'd get rid of the appendix, a useless leftover. I could go on and on...the point is, there are natural explanations for everything you see around you, including yourself. None of those explanations require any sort of designer or intelligence, just physics, chemistry, and biology (which are only things we've discovered about how natural things work).
Oh, and no -- obscure proverbs and dogma in the bible are *not* evidence...evidence is testable, those writings are not.
2006-12-27 06:04:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What evidence is there that there is a purpose?
I don't think that things are all that random. Everything follows specific physical laws. I can't for the life of me see how that could be considered random. Just because we haven't found the complete answer to all the mysteries doesn't imply that there is a purpose behind it. You have to provide evidence to back that up.
2006-12-27 05:41:05 · answer #3 · answered by Alex 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Believing in the Big Bang doesn't have to be all randomness. In Evolution, the advantageous traits stay, and the weak ones die off. The advantage of sexual reproduction would be better genetic variation, faster evolution, so it is the way of more complex, evolved organisms. Sorry, if this doesn't make much sense.
2006-12-27 05:40:21 · answer #4 · answered by some teenager 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think God created the universe to be random but with a base set of rules to keep order.
If you think about the creation story it aligns almost perfectly with big bang.
Let there be light (Big bang)
Seperation of the heavens from the earth (formation of planets)
Creation of the animals BEFORE humans
And on a side note genetics has proven the existence that we all come from a single mother.
2006-12-27 05:40:45 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Someone who cannot spell "penis" or "vagina" correctly has no business attempting to argue the finer points of why a creator is not necessary...
Drop the holy book and pick up a science book. Learn something about evolution, which has absolutely NOTHING to do with randomness. (Neither does the Big Bang for that matter...)
2006-12-27 05:40:46 · answer #6 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Show me anything in the universe that was designed and violates natural principles, and we can talk.
Until then, naturalistic explanations all the way.
(In short: prove to me a miracle's happened)
If you want to say life was designed, or that humans are somehow 'special', then the proof I will accept is this -- show me one active metabolic pathway in a human being that is less than 96% in common genetically with our nearest 'evolutionary cousin" or that cannot be traced to a different metabolic system (for example, our clotting enzymes can be directly traced to enzymes that are used in digestion in other species).
2006-12-27 05:43:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh Maurice! It's another one of your questions aimed at getting those evolutionary demons out of your system! How sweet of you to keep thinking of us!
And you're right, existence has no purpose. Very easy to come to terms with with a little thought and imagination.
2006-12-27 05:39:48 · answer #8 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Who would have though religious schools could produce people with the wit to use a computer?
2006-12-27 05:45:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Comparing the conveniences of man with the ideals of a man-made god... Big Bang? or just plain superstition...
2006-12-27 05:39:37 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋