Mmmkay. Yesterday, I had a very.."heated" discussion on God with my friend. Personally, I strongly believe in evolution. I'm one for the more...things I can see with my own eyes... stuff. But I can respect those who believe in god, too. After all, if that's what they feel is responsible for our existance, good for them for choosing something they can have faith in whole-heartedly. Anywho, towards the end of the whole..mini-debate thing, we brought up that maybe God put us here at the start of evolution then science took hold....just for a change. Anybody got any other alternatives, just out of interest?
By the way, just try to think about other opinions level-headedly so that no-one gets all..annoyed or..offended or something.
Looking forward to seeing other points of view!! =D
2007-10-20 12:15:12 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Any point in the world where only probabilities and possibilities may be described and the limits of scientifically reproducible discovery are exceeded, a point of divine invention becomes a possibility.
I believe divine eternal souls and spirit may play some role in determining how probabilities and possibilities play themselves out. For example, divine eternal soul spirit may play some role in determining the combinations of individuals that will find each other and produce mating pairs. Divine eternal soul spirit may play some role in determining the combinations of sperm and egg cells that will find each other and ultimately lead to conception of a new seed. I believe a fractal infernal temporal seed body would benefit from such help in terms of evolutionary advantage and be better able to create and survive within the body-consuming biosphere. I believe divine eternal soul spirit would benefit by being better able, through the limited yet ever higher consciousness of a fractal infernal temporal seed body, to enjoy entertainment derived from the mystery and discovery of existence.
2007-10-20 12:27:48 · answer #1 · answered by H.I. of the H.I. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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
2007-10-20 12:31:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I only believe that God created us. Evolution is something that man made up. It is something that people have to keep looking up, to fine the answer why and how. I think that evolution doesn't make any sense to me at all. Not being rude, I just don't get it. Most want to prove that God is real, but there is no way. There is a lot of evidence that he does exist, but people look past the obvious. God Bless
2007-10-20 12:29:19 · answer #3 · answered by mizzpretti 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not likely that you have met too many people who knew Albert Einstein. When I was 17 and a pre-ministerial student at a small college in Michigan, I wrote Einstein a letter about this same subject. He responded to my letter by saying that the quest of science was to discover the laws that were created by God. Evolution is one of Gods laws. When a man has sex with a woman, there are millions of sperm and the womans egg determines which one to allow in to fertilize the egg. This is evolution. If it had been a different sperm, I would not exist today. This is Gods will. Love life, love God!
2007-10-20 12:40:13 · answer #4 · answered by waynesworldstage 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, being that science is based upon empirical knowledge requiring that information be experienced through the senses, God to this point is not verifiable. However, this doesn't rule out the possibility of the existence of a creator. For instance a species is still a species even if we haven't discovered it yet.
To address a comment above: it would be perfectly feasible to believe that evolution is a tool that God used to create species as there is no requirement for God to have to intervene constantly.
I guess the point is that its fair for us to believe in God and we should learn to respect each others opinions.
I think you and your friend came to a good compromise that helps to build mutual respect despite a difference in beliefs.
2007-10-20 12:33:07 · answer #5 · answered by Adam 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question you and all of us have to ask is...does evolution agree with scientific facts? Can the universe begin from nothing? Where did all the matter and laws of nature come from? Can life start on it's own from non-living materials? Can the complex code of DNA begin by itself or increase in complexity over time in various life forms? God's inspired account of creation in the Biblical book of Genesis leaves no room for any such theories...it states He created everything in 6 normal days around 6000 years ago if you count the genealogies in the Bible. He created man in His image...not a descendant of a common ape ancestor. The two beliefs are diametrically opposed to each other...only one can be true. If the creation and fall into sin is true, then we are all sinners in dire need of a Savior for eternal life...if evolution is true, we are just a higher form of animals with no purpose other than to eat and breed and no need of a Savior.
2007-10-20 12:45:14 · answer #6 · answered by paul h 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is based on evidence. It's a real process, no matter how many people object to it on religious grounds.
Many people believe in theistic evolution. Evolution is not even an issue in many parts of Europe, except by (you guessed it) religious conservatives in Turkey.
I like to refer to this quote by Sagan on the religious opposition to wonderful theories that change the human perspective. I think it's a fabulous point of view, though I'm not personally religious:
"In some respects, science has far surpassed religion in delivering awe. How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed!”? Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.”
-Carl Sagan
We live in a universe with a trillion galaxies, in which humans make up a very tiny part. Is it any surprise that the universe doesn't conform to human expectations?
2007-10-20 12:23:31 · answer #7 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-07 07:28:18 · answer #8 · answered by mccleery 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Obviously there is evidence that evolution occur. I am a strong believer of christainaty but I believe there is no need to fight with science and religion. God created science. He made evolution occur. The thing that makes me really piss are people thinking that it happen by chance.
2007-10-20 12:26:24 · answer #9 · answered by kook321 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evolution is the only thing that makes sense.
I mean imagine if creationism is true, there would a huge ecological problem because species go extinct all the time. And they could only be replaced if a God actively replaced and created new species every week. And what about speciations. People observe speciations all the time, all these new species are very closely related morphologically and genetically to its ancestors. Is that God deliberately tricking us to think it's evolution or is it actually evolution?
2007-10-20 12:18:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋