Step 1) Abandon delusional and/or supernatural thinking
Step 2) Adopt critical thinking as a mode of reasoning
Step 3) Learn the scientific method
Step 4) Read and study the major scientific theories of chemistry, biology, & physics
Step 5) Further read and research the specific theories you've mentioned
Step 6) Draw your own conclusions.
If you still can't see the truth in science, go back to faith and god.
2007-02-19 12:51:41
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Evolution: Take an eight grade science class. That won't fit. I have a great list of evidence if you want. There is no question that this one happened.
Big bang: You are going to need senior level university Physics to understand the math behind this. I can do some of it with my Chemistry degree and Math minor, but not all of it. The short answer is that we can tell the universe is flying apart and we can pick up the background radiation left over so it makes sense.
Death: There is no evidence that anything happens other than you die.
How did we get here: See evolution. Well if you are asking how life started we know most of the chemistry, but don't have the whole picture. That is OK and much better than just making up an answer.
2007-02-19 12:55:26
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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As with everyone else here, I must ask do you realize how stupid you make yourself sound? YOu want me to sum up the big bang, and evolution in this post? Suuuure, no problem should take what 1 sentence? Okay here goes, nah nevermind I don't feel like doing it. :o) Do you realize that there is evidence of the big bang and evolution? I HIGHLY doubt you even have a college degree though. If you do, I'd recommend opening a science book. Any science book. You actually think there is no evidence (I'm not saying conclusive 100% beyond a doubt) pointing to evolution and the big bang? Are you even aware that astronomers (thats someone who studies stars, I know big word) have shown that the majority of the universe is expanding using dopplar technology (red shift).
Also you are so disgustingly ethnocentric. So you think that you are the only one who has got it right? You honestly believe the rest of the world that doesn't believe in christianity has it all wrong? If your God is all knowing and all powerful, why hasn't he proven himself to those non-believers? So do you think all those non-believers are going to hell? Boy you God really is MEAN.
2007-02-19 12:57:15
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answered by Ordin 3
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Well i would explain it all to you in a very large paragraph but i've tried it before with you people and it's just a waste of effort. Anything that i try and prove you're just going to shoot down with some foolish reference to religon, however i will impart some of my theories to you
1. If there is a god she's a woman, probably a lesbian
2. When you die you get eaten by maggots and broken down into your basic element which then get recycled back into the ecosystem (or they would but they pump you full of chemicals now a days)
3. I think the big bang is a way better theory then "God said let there be Earth" i mean really, come on at least organized religon could have come up with some kind of reason, from what i've gained from religous education you people claim that god made the earth and all of creation for shits and giggles.
4. ORGANIZED RELIGON IS BAD FOR YOU, if you'd like to believe in God, that's fine, good for you....why you need to break into sects and follow a narrow minded religous doctrine is beyond me.
2007-02-19 12:54:47
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answered by Anonymous
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150 years ago, we didn't know about bacteria. No clue. It wasn't understood until Louis Pasteur determined that germs caused disease.
You are asking the same questions that scientists ask. You have, however, asked this in the Religion & Spirituality section, where we are mostly humanities majors, not biologists or physicists. Would you come to R&S to find out what opus number was Mozart's 40th Symphony? I think not. You're asking us to play to our weakness. Quite frankly, you're being unfair.
So let me suggest two things:
1. If you are serious about wanting to know the current evidence-based understanding on the origins of the universe and on evolutionary theory, there are excellent descriptions found at http://www.talkorigins.org .
2. Consider that you are proposing (not so subtly) that anything that is not explained is a place for God to be discovered. This is commonly referred to in ontology as "the god of the gaps" theory. It typically assigns God to any blank space that science has not yet reached useful conclusions. Remember what I said about disease? Before bacteria were discovered, it was assumed God was punishing the ill, or that they were demon possessed, or some other supernatural phenomenon caused sickness. This is the same god of the gaps.
Science never assumes, and should never assume, anything is supernatural. The purpose of science is to discover through measured observation, testing, and repetition what natural causes lead to our natural world. If you impose a statement "God caused it," then this stops the search for knowledge, because God is ultimately unknowable. This is the reason that the "god of the gaps" theory is discounted among learned ontological academicians, and is ignored by science.
2007-02-19 12:54:20
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answer #5
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answered by NHBaritone 7
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Nope. The burden of proof lies with you. Prove the invisible sky father who cares about the outcome of football matches and fathered a child in Palestine two thousand years ago.
As ridiculous as the Big Bang theory may be, the God Made A Big Bang theory is one step more ridiculous.
2007-02-19 12:46:48
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answered by Doc Occam 7
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Seriously, just go to the library and check out some science books..that will explain evolution and the big bang.
And no one knows what happens after death because no one has ever come back from the dead.
2007-02-19 12:48:18
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answered by Anonymous
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How did "we" get here?
You do realise that believing a great giant sky king decided to plop his special human mammals amongst millions of other species and life forms on a tiny blue speck of a planet--just one of millions, in an obscure part of our galaxy, one of perhaps a billion, in an obscure part of the universe orbiting an ordinary medium star, just one of billions and billions of stars, and the entire thing was done just so he could "test" only human mammals "souls" in a grand elaborate reward/punishment game and the entire thing was done for that seemingly illogical purpose....
Is utterly ridiculous.
2007-02-19 12:58:16
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answered by Anonymous
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You don't have to know everything to believe in something. Christians claim that there is a God, yet they have no valid evidence of a God existing. They just "believe" it. So, why do we get insulted for believing in the actual evidence that scientists discover? I think that their theories with supportive evidence are much more believable than a God with no evidence.
And besides....non-believers have their disbeliefs for personal reasons also. Did you ever think of that? For instance, a man who believes in God, but realizes that God hasn't done anything positive in his life....therefore the man realizes that maybe there isn't a God.
2007-02-19 12:52:55
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answered by Abby C 5
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While I appreciate the assumption that I am all knowing (think I'm your god?), I am just me. So what if I can't explain all of that stuff. It doesn't make religion true to me. I believe there are other answers beyond assuming anything related to religion.
2007-02-19 12:52:00
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answered by Anonymous
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