Is anyone else sick of living in the past. I understand we need to know history to better understand our future but does it really matter is we evolved from apes or were given the breath of life by a God? Why does it matter to everyone. Regardless of where we came from we are all going to die. Try to understand that we truly do not know what will happen when we die, we can have faith but we do not actually know. Live life to the fullest but don't be stupid about it. When it's time to go, realize what a shame it was that you wasted time living your life for someone else or God, or even that you wasted time hating other people. Live life knowing that it's never long enough and that you will certainly die and you spreading 'the word of your lord' isn't going to suspend your time on earth. LIVE LIFE FOR YOU, sure being the boss of a company is great but it doesn't change your lifes outcome. Yes, billions of dollars is very nice, but you can't take it with you to heaven.
2007-12-11 20:49:04 · 18 answers · asked by rocksy * 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Like a forgotten memory a life that ceases to exist can not be argued to be anything of significance. There is no difference between a life of a second and a life of a thousand years if we all just turn to dust. :"Livin it up" is a weak philosophical idea. Because I don't see suicide after suicide of atheists this tells me that either they are not truly faithful to there own belief or they do not truly comprehend what nothingness really is. Peace... I mean no offence.
2007-12-11 21:09:02 · answer #1 · answered by mick rogers 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To Baptist...I believe in God and I will be the first to tell you that I also believe in evolution. I don't see where the argument is. Genesis is a very simplified version of evolution. It was the only way that people at the time it was written could understand it for one thing, and for another, it would have taken 1000 Bibles to just hold Genesis alone if were explained detail by detail. The Bible is full of parables and metaphors yet all too often it is taken too literally..
I don't understand how Christians can say that God isn't powerful enough to have carried out a process as complicated as evolution. God made Adam from dirt. And that cell in the dirt evolved all the way from a single cell to a full-blown human. How do we know that's not how it happened? And please don't give me that 7 days/7 nights crap. We all know God didn't have a day-planner....
2007-12-12 05:18:06 · answer #2 · answered by GhostHunterB 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is based on a false premise. Your question assumes that Evolution and Creation are conceived for the same purpose. They're not.
Creation is a religious concept that fits within a cosmic narrative relating humanity to God. It is a story about our past from which believers find meaning and identity.
Evolution is nothing so grand. It's merely part of a scientific theory. In particular the principle of natural selection and the concepts around it merely posit that certain processes affect life on earth and how those influences can be observed on different populations of creatures.
Ultimately evolution has no grand story to tell about where we came from, the fact that people have formed hereditary trees relating all existing life in a tree of common descent notwithstanding. It's merely an application of a general principle.
There are other and more important applications of evolution.
The most important applications of evolution are predictions looking forward based on current data. When new species are encountered its DNA gets analyzed. We identify genes and compare them to those in other creatures. Based on the differences in these genes we see what other creatures they're related to and begin to understand their biology. Other applications include looking at how genes variations within different individuals lead to variations in function to help us analyze how biological processes work (or fail to work, when you're trying to understand a disease).
The whole concept of associating changes in DNA sequence leading to changes in gene functions are based upon and intimately tied up with the principle of natural selection.
But evolution is not part of a religious canon. If something better comes along evolution will either get incorporated into a larger theory as Newtonian mechanics did when Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum mechanics came along or it will end up alongside other outmoded scientific concepts like ether or phlogiston or spontaneous generation.
Evolution is not meant to relate us to God or give us a guide to live our lives. It's just a workaday tool for biologists.
2007-12-12 05:40:13 · answer #3 · answered by Ralph S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are one confused little puppy....
YES it matters.... because truth always matters.
Truth is light! Lies are darkness.
People keep saying that believing tht God created the world and everything in it is not science, but they fail to note that science is on the side of creation actually.
As we get deeper and deeper into the workings of biology it is becoming more and more apparent that there HAD to be a creator, at least to the honest person. If someone wants to pesist in the ignorant superstitious belief that we all just came about by chance and happenstance, then they are allowing themselves to walk on in darkness because evolution is one giant hoax!
It's so blatantly wrong, to anyone who actually accepts the true science surrounding the whole "how did we get here" question, as to be laughable!
2007-12-12 05:15:37 · answer #4 · answered by skypiercer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
But I CAN leave my billions to my remaining family. Unless you want a share?
The important thing to consider here is not all that stuff but that religion has a corroding influence on so many parts of our lives right now and it COULD get worse.
Elect Mr Romney and see if there are any laws hindering medical science or laws about abortion or laws about what should be taught in school. He may not be the only one - Huckabee looks very suspicious to me!
All the rest could well be vote-hunting by pretending to have religion but I wouldn't put it past ANY American to be effectively from the Bible Belt and taking your country (not mine) further down the plughole.
Be aware of the dangers of government totally-controlled by religion. Try Saudi Arabia, Iran, Sudan, etc.
Secular government IS the only safe choice.
2007-12-12 04:57:14 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The science matters because we base all of biology on evolution. And from that we get our entire catalogue of medical technologies. Without life would be much shorter and far more miserable for many people.
That is why it matters if we are correct or not.
Although, that matter is concluded. As for the constant arguments on the internet between creationists and the educated people... that human nature at it's most.. vehement.
2007-12-12 04:59:44 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin M 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Evolutionists know full well that the gospel is made pointless by indoctrinating kids with this junk worldwide.
If death war disease etc. came before Adam and Eve and God looked at his creation at this point as stated in Genesis and 'saw that is was good' that means such death, war and bloodshed is the norm and not the result of the entry of sin into this world,therefore, Christ need not have bothered to die on the cross as a sacrifice for sin, as evolution basically teaches sin is natural.
2007-12-12 04:59:57 · answer #7 · answered by Wonderwall 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
I don't think most people concentrate too much of their lives on this. It matters to me because I like to know, and that it adds to my worldview and some perspective of my place and function in the universe. I believe in evolution but I also believe the universe was created by God, so I believe in a little bit of both.
2007-12-12 04:57:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Nice toughts. :) As a religious science student i'm on the side that God created evolution.
2007-12-12 04:57:44 · answer #9 · answered by Pinkypearl 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
the problem is evolution and the bible do not mix, so no we cannot get over it. If I was to accept evolution I would be discrediting God's word. So no your make up world cannot work. We christians (hate to use that word) have to seperate oursleves from the world. Coming to an agreement about evolution and the bible is not simply possible. I just don't see how someone that believes in God can say evolution is true, have you not read genesis? It CLEARLY tells you that adam was created out of dirt.
2007-12-12 04:54:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋