healother said:
something simple cant be created from nothing either. and even if we did evolve somewhere, what are the odds that it would have worked out as well as it did?
The odds are low. But, there are appoximately a billion billion planets. And they have been in existance for billions of years. That is a lot of time for things to happen. I would say that the odds of something incredible not happening are low as well.
I know that a human can be created from an egg and a sperm, that is something big created from next to nothing. I know that everything boils down to energy, which we believe cannot be created or destroyed, but there is no way to prove that fully.
and where are all the frickin fossils from along the way? Oh i think a scientist found half of a big monkey skeleton called lucy and told us it was a neanderthal so that scientist must be right, LOL.
We have a decent amount of fossils, but we have something far more powerful, DNA. We share the majority of our DNA with primates. If we were supposed to be so different and so special, why would a designer do that? shortcut maybe?
You are employing a common theory, GAP theory. Religion lives in the gaps of science. If we don't have a fossible to explain a certain part of the evolutionary chain, religious types automatically assume that GOD is the answer. God lives in the gaps of science and those gaps are slowly being closed.
Scientists relish the unknown, it gives them something to seek. They realize that our intelligence and knowledge is limited, but ever expanding. Its ok to not know EXACTLY how the universe was created right now, we don't have to have an answer. Religious believers do, and of course it is god.
To create a fossile it takes some pretty specific conditions. We know that our earth has gone through a lot of major changes, it isn't any surprise that we don't have fossils of every organism that lived on earth. The lack of fossile evidences doesn't prove the existance of god. Are you telling me that you do not believe in evolution at all?
also, how are you going to explain the bible through evolution? the prophecies in there that have become true, how the bible hasnt really changed much at all via translations (proven by the very old Dead Sea Scrolls recently found), and how the bible is pretty historically accurate.
The bible has changed quite a bit through translations. The phallcy of the virgin birth is a great example.
you can find a great list of contraditions in the book here:
http://www.evilbible.com/Biblical Contradictions.htm
of course you can use faulty logic and circular reasoning to explain just about anything, the bible is no exception.
and how are you going to explain miracles that happen today? Pass every story off as B/S? What are you going to say when one of your friends tells you that you prayed and received a miracle. Or when miracles happen to you?
evolution might be able to explain how the world gets to where it is, but it cant explain how it keeps going and how miracles happen everyday.
I'm very familiar with the power of prayer and placebo effects and can explain those.
By definition, a miracle can never be explained.
an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause
of course humans have sex for pleasure and of course that is okay within the confines of marriage. if i get married ill do it for pleasure, and really i dont plan on having kids. but if suppose both control fails (not even the pill is perfect) itd be a lot better if I had a kid with my wife than some random whore!
for the people who dont want to get married, they dont get the gift of sex. it comes in a package, you cant seperate one from the other. sex is the reward from the commitment of marriage, (and im sure there are other rewards too)
for whatever reason, it has been taught biblically that fornication is wrong, and that sex stay within the confines of marriage. I dont know why God wanted that in the Bible, but I believe that God wouldnt have let BS get spewed in that book, so therefore I'm assuming God controlled and approved of the contents of the Bible.
I dont like that the Bible emphasizes sex after marriage. heck I'd like to have it beforehand too, but to disobey the biblical law wouldnt be right. Even in the New Testament it's made very clear that permarital sex is wrong. So, its not a law that can be disregarded.
PEOPLE wrote those rules man. Why would you follow those rules, but not all of the other rules in the bible regarding slavery, the treatment of women, etc?