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Originally posted by jonesy@Nov 7 2004, 06:15 PM
Yes because it is SO scientifict to pretend that something comes from nothing. As I've said many times before, even if there was an evolutionary path that took many Mega-years. What started it? What caused the big bang and what banged?
No scientific theory in the world says you can get something from nothing. Things can change, mutate, evolve, adapt, but they can't just materialize from nothing.
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If someone came along and said a Supreme Being caused The Big Bang, with all energy, matter and even time as we know it springing from a single point of light and letting the grand experiment loose on its merry way, I'd say: "Okay, that's as good an explanation as any other."
In all seriousness, that's as plausible as anything else regarding where that pinpoint of light came from and what set it off.
But we're not talking about that.
We're talking about the demonstrated fact of evolution verses God creating Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.
Finding the latter in the curriculum of a non-secular school seems odd.
I work with a person who fervently believes the world was created about 4,500 years ago and laughs and mocks any suggestion to the contrary, including physical evidence of dinosaurs as one example. In turn, of course, I mock his beliefs, although I feel priviledged to know someone so openly and fervently immersed in something like that. In the interests of office harmony, we long ago agreed to not discuss religion, although he's a doorknocker and real keen to save me, and we have a strong working relationship as a result. If we really got into it, there's only one way it would end - badly - and there's simply no point trying to move two immoveable objects.
Cowperson