religious or not, what's your opinion on this...?

Question

http://www.watchtower.org/e/20040622/article_02.htm

(If you can't be bothered, I'll paste just the introduction)

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SCIENCE is constantly unraveling new secrets about the universe and the life that thrives on our planet. Nonetheless, scientists and laymen alike still face such fundamental questions as these: How did the universe come to be? What existed before that? Why does the universe appear to be expressly designed to support life? How did life arise here on earth?



Science still cannot really answer such questions. Some people doubt that it ever will. Many, then, have felt compelled to rethink their views and beliefs. Let us consider three of the mysteries that are leading some scientists to wonder about the existence of a Creator.

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You don't have to read much, you'll get the jist of it quickly.

Incase you were wondering, I'm not a Jehova Witness. I just find this section on Science and Religion working together really dinteresting.

Answer 1

Of course, true science harmonizes with the bible.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/19960122/
http://watchtower.org/e/20020608/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040622/article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20000922/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040122a/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/t13/
http://watchtower.org/e/20001008/article_03.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20000122/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20001008/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/article_04.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19960122/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/

Answer 2

"Why does the universe appear to be expressly designed to support life?" Life is a result of the conditions that allowed it to occur. But what we have here & now is just one permutation of infinite possibility. If the conditions were slightly different, a different kind of life may have resulted, or simply no life at all, in which case nobody would be missing out, because it never would have existed in the first place. If, in the first few seconds of the universe, antimatter had won out over matter, who knows how things would be different from how they are now. These are questions we do not know the answer to. The possibility of a Creator is, too, one possibility in a group numbering infinite. And therefore, not to be so quickly discounted. In the end, all of this is important for the question, "How does this relate to the world that we *do* know?" Personally, my fascination for scientific discovery and belief in God at the same time helps me to not only understand the order of chaos, but also to put meaning to such order. To me there it is not mutually exclusive.

Answer 3

True, science HAS NOT answered those questions
and may not ever be able to!
I am not Jehovah's Witness, but many people are saying
the same things, including scientists!
The schools (especially universities) are
brainwashing kids with a LOT of propaganda!

Look at this:
1 Timothy 6:20
"O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called"

God did NOT tell us to not learn any science,
just to be wise and beware of pseudo-science!
This includes the old teachings of the earth
being flat and the earth being the center
of the universe!
I don't take it for granted, but scientists
are certainly taking macro evolution
as a given - whatever does not
fit the pattern is labled an
anomaly!

Answer 4

Marie,
I was a Mathematics Major in College. I was also a Physics Minor and an Education Major. This material is absolutely WONDERFULLY WRITTEN! I am not a JW Either but I do believe this piece was very well constructed and it is very interesting. The mathematical probability of life "happening" is not at all possible in and of itself and there are so many more things included here that make it less possible. This is GREAT! Thank you so much for sharing this article. It displays what I have been saying for quite some time but a number of the early answerers refused to read, study, and say that LIFE did not and COULD not "just happen" without "Divine Intervention". Have a wonderful week!
Thank you,
Eds (A simple Christian)


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Answer 5

Science will never be able to answer these questions. Not logically. Because there is no science in it. Even Aristotle and Einstein and all the other so called greats concluded that their theory has way for debate and other means.

Answer 6

It is not science and religion working together. A scientist wouldn't consider a creator as a possible theory.

And the intro. Was the article written in the 15th century?

Answer 7

When we search for truth, wheather we know it or not we search for God. Each of us are on the same path, the journey
has various avenues, and many cross roads, detours, ruts,
some times a dead end! We none know God's plan of how one's journey gets them there. Many scientists do believe in God, that did not at one point in time.

Answer 8

I was agreeing until " Why does the universe appear to be expressly designed to support life?"

It doesn't. there are literally billions upon billions of stars, one of which has a planet that sustains life. We are, I suspect, the exception rather than the rule.

Answer 9

the intro is biased

"Why does the universe appear to be expressly designed to support life?"

"some scientists to wonder about the existence of a Creator." --their "scientists"

Answer 10

There's nothing in the quote that calls for an opinion from the reader.

Answer 11

The universe isn't designed to support life. I recall earth being one planet, and I think there's been one more found that _may_ be able to sustain life.