Two alternatives. Which seems more right to you?

Question

Two alternatives.

You can believe that a higher power snapped its' fingers 6000 years ago and everything came into being. Seemingly old things like fossils and the Grand Canyon were created to fool us. Pretty much all of science is wrong, a sure sign that it's evil.

Or, you can believe that a higher power created the Big Bang 13 billion years ago, just right, so as to miraculously form the Earth billions of years later. And that life was miraculously formed, first as very simple organisms, then, through evolution and many thousands of years, more complex ones. Eventually Man was created, to worship. Nothing in science disproves that.

Which story is more beautiful, more awesome? Is Science sin, or is it a God given way to better understand the marvel of creation?

The choice for this guy is easy:

http://www.reasons.org/

"The mission of Reasons To Believe is to show that science and faith are, and always will be, allies, not enemies."

Dana - You're absolutely right that the second alternative leaves much open. As a result it avoids much destructive conflict.

If you are a nonbeliever, and a supporter of science, it is much to your advantage if believers choose alternative 2. Then there are no conflicts about teaching science in schools. Note that, in the US, nonbelievers are a distinct minority, and thus at risk of the tyranny of the majority.

Answer 1

Of those two choices, as a scientist obviously I prefer the second. However, those certainly aren't the only two possibilities. For instance, the second alternative leaves open the question of the origins of the higher power.

Answer 2

Well, in all honesty, if you are truly taking into consideration that God can do anything, both are possible. It's not really about what seems "more right" because if you believe that God is all powerful (not to sound kookoo or anything) then you must feel that God is above our understanding and thinking.
I do not feel that science is sin and I believe that in both cases, science still holds to be beautiful. It all depends upon what definition of science you hold to be true. And also what theories you believe in. Laws of science are solid, but theories are not.

Answer 3

You bring up an argument that doesn't take into account the need of most men to have faith in what they are taught by their religious leaders. There is no less awe or beauty in either side to this argument, however, and a little tolerance on both sides might put this issue to bed in order we focus on the actual problems we have both created.

Answer 4

neither both are lies
animals for evolution ok
people were most likely bred and seeded on this planet as slaves by outsiders.

Why were ancients Zimbabweans mining gold for who .what use is gold in the jungle .

Why was there a civilization more than 100,000 years ago living in the Amazon basin
that made an artificial soil , half a meter deep spread over many hundreds of hectares to support an agriculture for millions of people ,according to the many big pottery shards (its wide curve suggesting pots 2 meters wide)( on hundreds of artificial mounds , all in the place of the legendary el Dorado ,
they were mining gold for whom ?
And where did they learn this sophisticated method of making artificial soil,by burning wet foliage they were supposed to be primitive people

Why did the Olmec s have perfect machined huge plates of bakalite buried, that came from hundreds of miles away.technology for what ??

And where did the Amazonian tribes get the information on how to prepare Ahuahuaska ,molecular knowledge was needed for that ,two different plants ,a vine and a floor plant from another part of the jungle out of millions of species prepared in different ways
the one deactivating the bodies rejection ,that together made a sophisticated drug.

Where did all of the astrology come from with all these ancient civilizations .
why so many references to people from the stars
why are the Anunaki (those who descended from the heavens)mentioned in Africa ,China ,India amongst others as well as Babylonia

And the humanoids(Neanderthals ,Erectus etc ) lived to close together ,evolution takes millions of years .

there are at least 3 alternatives NOT 2

even in Genesis extraterrestrials are mentioned
but people have been brainwashed to blindness not to see that .
Sons of the Gods that lay with the daughters of Earth

the Higher power you speak of is invented propaganda by those who did the seeding ,to create smoke over the past and maintain control over their creations ,

not one but many.

read the emerald tablets of Thoth a text dated at 36.000 years in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics's,now translated into English,discovered under a Mexican Pyramid in Ouxaca at the beginning of the last century,

Thoth was a very sharp cookie with wisdom from the past way before Jehova was even thought of .but speaking of today ,

Why was this text forbidden publication for over 80 years ,it contradicts some supposed truths that is why

The powers that control the Americas from Tierra del Fuego to Alaska ,have used religion as whip from the beginning,god is even in the government in many places.

In Northern Europe we killed this power 400 years ago (not England but they are hardly Europe)
after it had killed so many Europeans and it controlled all the lands as well as putting shackles on intellectual development .we went through a renaissance of enlightenment and art .

and the fanatics where did they go when they were not wanted any more .I give you one guess,

Answer 5

Absolutely right.

Answer 6

any explanation of the world that includes "god" is wrong. plain and simple.