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The real answer is those positions are too simplistic to accurately describe what's going on. I think you are being far too simple in your descriptions here.
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Agreed.
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This is incorrect. In fact when the big bang theory started to gain traction, many scientists had a distaste for it because it looked "more religious" than the previously held steady state theory. They didn't like it because it sounded too close to the creation account in Genesis! Yet they had to accept it because of the huge amount of evidence.
Can you provide a definition of the big bang (without looking)?
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So it would have been OK if I thought 'God said Bang and it happened'?
I was under the assumption that the Big Bang was when all matter was in one nice little ball and went supernova and spread becoming the universe, slowly forming other smaller balls of gas called stars and dirt into planets. I hope thats not to simple for your liking.
Also because these debates always seem to happen with athiest/ agnostics I naturally assume that they are being posed as anti god theories. pardon me for sterotyping.
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In science a theory doesn't mean an idea, it means a well supported set of concepts and such that explain a phenomenon, complete with confirmed predictions and explanatory power. Gravity is also a theory, do you distrust gravity in the same way?
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Should I have said hypothesis?
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There are hundreds of thousands of links in thousands of museums and Universities and research labs around the world. There's millions of links written in the genetic code of every organism. So yes, actually it has been discovered. What does evolution or the big bang have to do with God existing? Honestly, I'm curious.
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As I said they are usually used as evidence against God so maybe I am just being defensive.
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More Christians than not believe in God but also accept evolution. They are not mutually exclusive. I get the impression that you think they are and I'd like to know why.
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More often than not evolution is used to back the non-theist view point. Pretty sure that was the point in this debate.
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Who are you talking about here?
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Not sure, losing track but it went back to how the pyramids are proof that there are aliens or something like that.