This is a test of your faith to see what you know and to see what kind of solid foundation it has. Do not quote scriptures from your faith, just give me facts based on proof that your religion or beliefs on evolution are correct. There are no wrong answers. Before I close this question out I will comprise a list of bad and good answers based on my oppinion.
2007-12-23 01:51:59 · 23 answers · asked by Joox 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
already all I see is preaching and no evidence. People saying only god can convert me.. Come on this is your chance to be a salesman. A car salesman doesn't know squat about a car when he sells it to you but he can throw facts and figures in your face. I'm sure you can do the same with your religion.
2007-12-23 01:59:14 · update #1
jack the giant killer.I asked the question and asked for answers. If you want me to prove who I am then go ask it on the boards and I'll be hapy to prove it to you.until then don't waste space here and answer the question or don't bother to respond at all.
2007-12-23 02:01:18 · update #2
All I am seeing is a bunch of excuses and even cropped and pasted answers.
Christians claim god is responsible for everything. The bible even preaches this... noahs arc...famines...miracles.....seas parting....wars won... There has to be evidence (proof) of something out there and not just scriptures your pastor feeds into your mind. not one answer?
2007-12-23 02:05:59 · update #3
Steve B said :
"Bible was written by many different men and told the same story."
ok so if everyone says it then it must be true? lol thats a funny way of seeing things.Anyone got a bridge we can all jum off?
2007-12-23 02:07:57 · update #4
now watch as the bible thumpers quote the scriptures. ugh!!
2007-12-23 01:56:53 · answer #1 · answered by gretch 5 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Chromosome Y (Adam), Mitochondria (Eve)
We all came from one Woman...
All Males came from One Man...
The universe had a beginning...
"Big Bang" or something...
As soon as it was possible to sustain life in the universe...
Poof there it is... (the first 11 billion years the universe was quite sterile) 3.6 Billion years ago Life shows up in the fossil record... 3.8 billion years ago carbon 12 shows up (carbon 12 shows up in the presents of life but no fossil record)
About 3.9 - 4 billion years ago the last major meteor and comet bombardment ceased...
During the construction of our solar system, all the vital factors just happen to be in the same spot at the exact right time...
The right kind of star G2 Yellow Dwarf... (A rare star Containing an unusually large amount of heavy metals)
Earth just happen to be formed at just the right distance from that star...
Earth Just happened to have a moon 1/4 it size stabilizing it's tilt making it have moderate temperatures...
Our planet just happen to form with all the attributes vital to sustain life....
The all the ingredients for life just happened to be in the right place at the right time...
To make DNA, RNA, and functional Proteins...
Inforrmation does not go from Protein to RNA...
It goes from RNA to Proteins...
Meaning RNA comes before proteins...
No method has ever been discovery to make RNA or DNA for that matter using chemical reactions... (In a controlled environament: the lab) This compared to the primative earth where there is every possibility to destory any progress or even make it impossible for life to exist...
Taking into consideration an oxygen-free atomsphere of the primative earth some 3.9 billioin years ago... The amount of UV radiation would have annihilated the chemical reactions that might have occured...
All the probabilities keep multiplying... A great number of happy accidents all in a row... (And none of these are very probable in the least)
Much of history, and some science, even medical insights corroborate the bible...
I can go into each and every part of the evolutionary hypothesis, and debunk all the underlying assumptions and calculate the mathematical probabilities...
I could show you an alternative interpretation of all the presented evidence... and even expose some of the fabricated evidence...
I could show you exactly where the hypothesis goes against actual science...
I could show you all the problems and paradoxes....
But I think you are not actually interested...
And Yeah, I cannot convert you...
You convert after learning, understanding, accepting or rejecting... It all depends on you...
Journey Well...
2007-12-23 11:04:35 · answer #2 · answered by Juggernaut 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't "convert" anybody to my religion. I am a christian, irt sounds as though you are challenging God and it warns in the bible do not test the Lord thy God.
By the tone of your question you sound a little hard hearted and out to prove that my faith is not genuine. I'm afraid there is no amount of evidence that will convert someone in your state of mind. Faith is the evidence of things unseen. It sounds like you may never have experienced this and it cannot be described....so, go ahead and give me a thumbs down if you like or put my question on the "bad" list. Nevertheless I will be praying for God to make himself real to you one day so that your eyes may be opened and your heart may be changed.
The solid foundation of my faith is the Bible....the most translated book in the world, the most well known book in the world, the book that has endured longer than anyother book in all of history. The most controversial book in the world. The book that has changed hardened criminals, murderers and child molesters lives. It has stood the test of time.
Those facts alone force me to stand up and take notice that there must be something life changing in it's pages.
As far as physical evidence.....here you go....
2007-12-23 10:04:15 · answer #3 · answered by Nashgirl4 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, the majority of the world, Christian or not, believe that Jesus lived and died as told in the Bible.
But the best concrete evidence is the fact that the Bible was written by many different men and told the same story.
Surely no one can possibly think that all these men and the people that turned to Christianity were just trying to "run a hoax" on the world. If it was, it was the biggest hoax in all of history and one that continues on today.
2007-12-23 10:04:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The answer looking for is nort no body can prove the exisistance of man with proof wither you believe in evolution or god you have to be their right from the beginning even scientist doubt in the evolutionary theory their has been 3 types of man thought to have been the missing link. one was found in 1912 then 50yrs later was found to be a hoax proved that he had 600yr skull and ajaw for anorangotang.no.2 was pilt down man from nebraska was reconstructed from one tooth found to be of and extinct pig and the third was from javaman he was formed from bits of thigh bone and three molar teeth and the imagination of paris plaster workers who put him to gether there have been no creditable evidence to say that evolution is correct. there is also a scientist ,and his colgues offering $250,000 to any one that can prove evolution, his web site www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=67 see what the other alternatives might be.there are more reasons why I belive in god. I also see another type of evidence to prove that there is a god Im not going to recite any verses when the jewish prophet in the old testament predicted what jesus would go though his, death his ,birth the type of person he would be and for it to come true showed he was who he said he was' the son of god the son of the alpha and the omega/creator no other prohet or religion comes even close to jesus and christianity from prophecy,miracles,for it all to come true is more than a coincidence even muslim aknowledge jesus and so do the jews. but there is also one more concreate evidence that you dont aknowledge and it is what we christians call the holy spirit and you will never find that evidence unless you open your heart to the lord please have a look at the web site.
2007-12-23 12:24:42 · answer #5 · answered by al w 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Call the Pentecost and Apostolic churches in your area, ask them if some one in their church has the gift of prophecy (or if not, do they know of someone).
Go to these chruches and ask for a word from God (you may want to ask someone before the service starts when and how is the best time to ask).
Most people do not have the use of the gift at all times, so you may have to try several times before getting an answer (every person and church is different).
Also, if you have some thing that needs to be healed, you could ask if they have the gift of healings in their church.
2007-12-23 10:05:31 · answer #6 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In facing questions like "Why do I believe god exists" it is important on the one hand to distinguish between "what has to exist" (sometimes called "necessity"), and,on the other hand, what is "in need of an explanation, what needs evidence?" Some things need an explanation, or evidence, while some things do not. For example, there is a formula for solving quadratic equations, which every high school student learns in algebra. On the other hand, first year students learn to prove that there are no integers, say "p" and "q", such that p divided by q equals the square root of 2. It is an interesting conclusion that if god were to exist then god could not find two such integers, either. This lack of a pair of integers is a *necessary* feature of algebra; that is to say, it is necessarily true once one discovers algebra. Does it make sense for someone say, "Well, do you have any evidence that there aren't integers, say "p" and "q", such that p divided by q equals the square root of 2?" Well, no, there is no "evidence." Indeed, it doesn't really make sense even to ask for evidence: the assertion that there are no such integers is true because it is necessary. This is a product of how one works through the questions arising from thinking algebraically.
We know, though, that there are lots of situations where asking for evidence, in other words asking for an explanation, makes good sense. Physics, chemistry, biology, botany and astronomy offer many good cases in point. It makes sense to ask, for example, "Why does the DNA in my mitochondria come only from my mother and not my father?" There is something very different about this question than the questions about algebra; biology questions, for example, seem to be the kind where providing evidence seems warranted. Physicists, too, are bent on providing explanations of this latter sort, and they are careful when they meet questions of the former sort not to confuse the two. So, for example, good physicists will happily assert that everything we see around us is subject to needing an explanation: people, trees, water, the solar system, galaxies, volcanic sand, bacteria, states of mind; all of these stand in reference to this latter sort of questioning: "Why are things this way and not some other way?" This happens in the Astronomy section of Y!A all the time. "Why is the sky blue", "What color are neutron stars," "Does the universe have an edge," "Why is the moon round," show up with astonishing regularity! So, why is the sky blue and not red? Why are all large solid bodies roughly spherical in shape? Why is the sun yellowish? Why is the solar system stable over long periods of time?
Moving on, care needs to be taken when lumping individual items together into systems and then asking questions about the whole system because not every attribute of a part of a system is an attribute of the whole system. Attributes of a planet, say, may or may not become an attribute of a solar system. It is not always clear how explaining the parts of a system explains the whole system. For example, no good physicist would assert that a wall made of small bricks was, therefore, a small wall; but it would still be a brick wall. A pile of $10.00 bills on a table isn't an "empty" pile when the money is spent. None of us would assert --except as a joke-- that the world is littered with empty piles of $10.00 dollar bills. So, it makes sense to ask "How did this pile of $10.00 dollar bills get here" without the answer being "Well, the pile was always here, it just has $10.00 dollar bills now, whereas before it was just an empty pile." The pile itself is susceptible to the same sort of questioning that the sky is, that the solar system is, that my DNA is. This, as will be seen in a moment, is the "god" question: what explains this pile of stars, galaxies, dust, dark matter and dark energy: the universe as a whole?
At each step in this process of asking questions we are asking for a set of reasons --sometimes those reason give evidence and sometime they do not-- which give us some explanation for what we see. When do we ever stop asking for an explanation or for evidence? When we cite reasons which are perforce necessary. For example, there is no equation from which one can derive the positions of the planets of our solar system. This is called, in the parlance of mathematicians, the "n-body" problem. If the solar system were composed of exactly two bodies which were themselves perfectly rigid spheres, and if they are reasonably small and at a great distance from each other, then there is such an equation which was derived by Newton. But when the number of bodies is greater than 2 then no such formula exists. There are *numeric* solutions generated by computers which can be quite good over long spans of time; but there is no general solution. No physicist searches for one; what's the point? Likewise, absolute zero is what it is. Occasionally on Y!A physics, one sees the question "can something get colder than absolute zero?" Asking that question makes clear that the person asking does not understand what "absolute zero" means, nor why it follows from the way one thinks in the process of discovering physics. Both Absolute Zero and having no solution to the n-body problem are "necessary" features of physics. There is no going beyond them, it makes no sense to ask "What happens when you get colder than Absolute Zero?"
So, when one faces everything that physicists, biologists, psychologists, chemists, geologists and astronomers have discovered it does indeed make sense to ask, "Is there a reason for everything?" "What explains the universe as a whole?" One can, of course, choose not to face these questions, one can minimized these questions, one can dismiss these questions, but those are personal issues of integrity; yet as the discussion shows these questions still makes sense to ask; and to answer. So, what is the answer?
The answer to these questions is what Muslims, Jews, Christians, Taoists, Wiccans, and the like refer to when they use the term "god." As a consequence, there is no "evidence" for god, nor does god need further explanation. Quadratic equations have a general formula for their solution, the n-body problem is not solvable, light speed is absolute, god is the answer to a particular question and there is no "going beyond" these. There is no good way to answer the question, "Well, can you give me some evidence that there is no explicit formula for the n-body problem?" It follows from a whole way of thinking about algebra that it is so. The same is true for god. As I pointed out, god is the answer to, god follows from, a whole system of questioning.
HTH
Charles
2007-12-23 10:01:14 · answer #7 · answered by Charles 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Honestly, I do not care if you convert or not. That is your choice.
"This is a test of your faith." is what you said yet you want no scripture to be quoted and only concrete evidence. That is idiotic. Faith is believing without seeing.
However just take a look at the world around you, isnt that proof enough? Oh yeah....the big bang just made all this happen. ROFL!!! Yet people call Christians stupid.
2007-12-23 09:59:26 · answer #8 · answered by Google Rules! 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
religion is man made way to reach God.
Relationship with Christ is God's way of bridging the gap between God and man.
read the book IRRESISTIBLE REVOLUTION. Shane Claiborne
It is a short story of one real Christian alive today- afaik
he gets arrested for feeding and living with homeless people
he goes to iraq while america is bombing it.
lived in calcutta with mother theresa
there are lots more about his life but to simplify my point.
looking at the life of this believer is enough proof.
2007-12-23 10:34:15 · answer #9 · answered by bagsy84 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Looking at your answers to other questions, I must conclude that you already have concluded. So what is your point to this question? Are you trying to give faith one more chance on YA or are you just wanting to bash it some more?
No attitude, just want to know before I attempt an answer to your challenging, but answerable question?
Rant somewhere else.
Grace and peace to all.
2007-12-23 10:03:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can, god told me. But I won't, since kwistenbiebelism is not open for new membership. Sorry.
Must be difficult to make a list of good and bad answers NOT on your opinion.
Have a nice day.
2007-12-23 10:01:07 · answer #11 · answered by kwistenbiebel 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋