Is it ok to think that we did not evolve only because you find it repugnant, or do you need more information? What about the big bang, or our lack of free will?
2007-01-17 03:12:31 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
beta_fish: Thanks for making my point. I need more information and do not reject things because I find them distasteful. In fact my feelings play no role at all.
2007-01-17 03:22:39 · update #1
srprimeau: You are saying you need evidence, but you are discarding my free will argument because you don't like the implications. The implications should have ZERO influence on what you believe.
2007-01-17 03:24:56 · update #2
Let me revise the above. Your FEELINGS about the implications should have no role.
2007-01-17 03:26:30 · update #3
The best reaction I ever got from a Fundamentalist christian on Evolution was when I brought them with me to see transitional fossils, showing how evolution has progressed. I also had them talk to 3 Evolutionary biologists about the subject and their response and I swear to Science on this one...."the Devil has given you this evidence to confuse you on the path to god" He literally believed the Devil created these fossils to lie to us! hahahaha I almost threw up I laughed so hard.
2007-01-17 03:18:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The big bang? Since when does an explosion create order? Go ahead, name one you've seen occur that creates any kind of order. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock..... nothing? Didn't think so. Alright, now lets assume for the sake of argument that explosions do cause order to occur. The big bang hypothesis still falls short on account of a little scientific law called.....drum roll please........The Conservation of Angular Momentum!!!!! Basically the implication of this law is that if everything exploded off of the same lump, or dot, or what ever it should all be spinning in the same direction, but alas, it is not. The big bang theory is stupid. As far as free will goes, I have free will. I think you are talking strictly to Calvinists there.
2007-01-17 04:40:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian I think the Big Bang could of occured under the direction of God. The Idea of evoving is more contradictory to the Bible rather than repugnant. We have free will. All ideas should be considered
2007-01-17 03:20:13 · answer #3 · answered by TULSA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian. I have never stated that atheism is a religion. The very notion is absurd. I am not a Creationist, nor am I a Biblical literalist. I absolutely do not want Creationism taught in the public educational system. Personally, I would rather see science being taught in schools. Prayer does not belong in school. I strongly support the separation of church and state.
2016-03-29 01:36:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God says to test.. The things that do not match up with scripture or the basic foundation of Christianity (not theological perspectives.. not doctrines... THE HOLY WORD) Those things are what are discarded.. I dont think there is anything in the Bible that says God did not use what he created to make things happen.. Just because God did it doesnt mean we cant explain it .. we are made in The Image of God.. we are intelligent creations.. but we are created... ANybody who believes we showed up from NOWHERE... is not thinking.. somebody had to do it.. some how it happened ... u dont get somthin from nothing... EXCEPT THROUGH GOD! -
2007-01-17 03:18:47 · answer #5 · answered by Christal 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians discard the entire Old Testament unless they're using it as a weapon against gay folks.
and so what about science? science is the Devil's deception.
free will? the Bible contradicts itself on this concept. the Bible god allows for free will in this or that verse and then ordains or "predestinates" in others. **shrug** ignoring such things is a whole lot easier than trying to explain the errors in the inerrant Word of God.
2007-01-17 03:21:58 · answer #6 · answered by nebtet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it's against common sense & reason...anyone should (and a rational person would) discard it.
If your theory that no one has free will & everything can be blamed on a reaction in the brain...then we have nothing...but purposeless evil & hatred. Hitler didn't choose to murder six million Jews, that's just how his brain operated. Mother Theresa didn't choose to lend out a helping hand, that's just how her brain operated. Jim Jones didn't choose to deceive people into killing themselves, that's just how his brain operated.
You're really creating a mess for yourself (well, not really...since, you're not you...your eyes will see this...which will conjure up some chemicals in the brain that will enable what it causes you to think is you to respond to this...but anyway).
No one is responsible for anything anymore...since no one really exists. Just chemical reactions.
Lovely world, dude.
Edit: Steve, I'm just expressing my views as to why I think your theory should be OBVIOUSLY asinine. Your moral questions on this forum should be sufficient for everyone to see how you are not consistent with your worldview. But, I guess that's just how your brain operates (i.e., irrationally). :-)
2007-01-17 03:19:47 · answer #7 · answered by srprimeaux 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Or the existence of a God and a purpose for this life?
That sword cuts both ways, my friend...
Neither evolution nor the Big Bang have any impact on God as far as I'm concerned. And you've not done a good job of proving your "we are mindless robots who run on chemical reactions" argument.
2007-01-17 03:17:43 · answer #8 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its really with the christian faith. they believe so strongly about their books yet never have the time to read up the actual history of how they were created. There is exists several copies of the true bible (new testament) all of them reside in ethiopia, kenya, iraq, saudi arabia, and israel. All in all there exists a total of around 200 chapters from not only the twelve diciples, but also that of Jesus's closest friends, that talk about his story from birth to death.
Early christians believe in this true bible, but of course Romans, conservative right-wing politicians (early 450 ad), and those who sought influence over this new religion took crucial things out of the bible and kept only the things that would move people to more of a forced (believe or die) kind of mentality.
History channel, CNN, even PAX, did exposes on the early christians, of you dont believe me.
Fact of the matter is that jesus was a prick when he was kid, he only realized his importance to all mankind after he turned 15. i bet thats not writen in any of your King james versions.
Unfortunately for you christians we believe in four books, Torah (old testament), Ingel (new testament) the actual bible of the early christians, Dauod (book of angels) the hierarchy of heaven, and Q'uran (Islamic religious text) the book of judgement. Thank god we also know our actual history.
2007-01-17 03:35:37 · answer #9 · answered by adnmoh2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont find evolution repugnant. If its proven, I'll still believe in God and that He used it to bring us forth. I dont believe we lack free will... and what about the big bang?
2007-01-17 03:17:02 · answer #10 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋