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Originally Posted by Doctordestiny
I'm not sure what Norm meant and some of his posts do seem a bit arrogant to me, but as a Christian this is my belief. Not sure if this is what he meant.
I think it's impossible that this wonderful body of mine (granted I could lose a few pounds) could exist in such a complex, delicately balanced world that seems perfectly created for us. That all of this could come essentially from nothing seems to me to be a greater leap of faith than the possibility that there could be a creator who is responsible for all of this. Look around you (or in the mirror) at the enormous complexity of the world, all of the creatures that occupy it and the enormous vastness of space around this world and maybe you'll see my point. How else could this have come about?
I do think that God and science can exist in harmony. I believe in evolution as God's tool for creation.
No other possibility makes more sense to me than that.
I do expect to be blasted for this. Be gentle.  |
Even when I was 15 years old in Church when people would tell me about how perfect our bodies were or how majestic the mountains and the natural world was around us as evidence of creation, I could never buy it. I saw only fragile, imperfect biology in a pretty grotesque body full of strange features and vestigial organs that we only find beautiful due to evolution (even though I am pretty handsome
). I saw the mountains as a process of tectonic chaos as well as all of nature and the world around us stemming from life gone wild through mutation and breeding taking over the world in chaotic and random processes. We are only conditioned to see things as beautiful because of evolution.
I could accept religion and worshipped for other rationales, but I couldn't for this one. It seemed far too simplistic, short-sighted, and all too human.
You could never convince me of God's existence by fiat, by the fact that our world and the universe exists and to our eyes, it appears to be wonderful and perfectly ordered. Science has shown us that it is in fact, usually the opposite. That doesn't preclude the existence of God, just I could never maintain faith for those reasons.