They're Marching Against God - Your .02
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ltweintz
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Please don't do it just for me.
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Please don't do it just for me.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JonBoy
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I guess what I meant was this: if someone were to actually take into consideration what I wrote as opposed to just dismissing it (because they don't even remotely consider the possibility that God is real and scripture is perfect), I would do it.
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I guess what I meant was this: if someone were to actually take into consideration what I wrote as opposed to just dismissing it (because they don't even remotely consider the possibility that God is real and scripture is perfect), I would do it.
#203
Originally posted by ltweintz
I think that would be a really interesting read.
I think that would be a really interesting read.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by JonBoy
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Man, since Garyj started these threads on God and religion, my posts per day went from around 0.2 to 2.5 or something.
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Man, since Garyj started these threads on God and religion, my posts per day went from around 0.2 to 2.5 or something.
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More, but never all. Science is still puttering along trying to explain how creation occurred and even then it is no more than theories. Science requires practically as much faith to believe as Christianity (or any religion) does. Some would say it requires more.
Remember, Christians do not deny the truth of science (some of it, at least). The really important parts, however, such as creation, time travel and space-time continuums and such, are (at best) purely theoretical. Science can "prove" some of it (based on other unproved "accepted" science) but really, how can they prove anything?
Everything in science is relative. Everything is dependent on everything else. You can't explain time travel without getting into physics. But who can prove physics at the smallest level? No one, because to "prove" it they have to disturb it, and in disturbing it they could easily be changing it! They throw out all kinds of numbers and formulae based on experimentation, but what calibrates the calibrators? What is the absolute in science? NOTHING. Therein lies its weakness - science uses science (ie, it uses itself) to prove science. What kind of proof or absolute is that?
Remember, Christians do not deny the truth of science (some of it, at least). The really important parts, however, such as creation, time travel and space-time continuums and such, are (at best) purely theoretical. Science can "prove" some of it (based on other unproved "accepted" science) but really, how can they prove anything?
Everything in science is relative. Everything is dependent on everything else. You can't explain time travel without getting into physics. But who can prove physics at the smallest level? No one, because to "prove" it they have to disturb it, and in disturbing it they could easily be changing it! They throw out all kinds of numbers and formulae based on experimentation, but what calibrates the calibrators? What is the absolute in science? NOTHING. Therein lies its weakness - science uses science (ie, it uses itself) to prove science. What kind of proof or absolute is that?
In my experience with theists, this type of argument is usually the final mudslinging monologue that immediately precedes a grumbling exit.
Let's pick it apart. This will be fun!
Science is still puttering along trying to explain how creation occurred and even then it is no more than theories.
Science requires practically as much faith to believe as Christianity (or any religion) does. Some would say it requires more.
The really important parts, however, such as creation, time travel and space-time continuums and such, are (at best) purely theoretical.
Science can "prove" some of it (based on other unproved "accepted" science) but really, how can they prove anything?
Everything in science is relative. Everything is dependent on everything else. You can't explain time travel without getting into physics.
But who can prove physics at the smallest level? No one, because to "prove" it they have to disturb it, and in disturbing it they could easily be changing it!
They throw out all kinds of numbers and formulae based on experimentation, but what calibrates the calibrators?
What is the absolute in science? NOTHING. Therein lies its weakness - science uses science (ie, it uses itself) to prove science. What kind of proof or absolute is that?
- Warren
#206
[QUOTE]Originally posted by ltweintz
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Just an observation...I'm pretty sure that most Christians believe that god is perfect (if you don't, then ignore this post). Following from that, if God was once satisfied with men, then later on was not, then wouldn't this imply imperfection on his part? Isn't perfection the quality that makes god so great? If god makes mistakes too, then why would he be any better than humans?
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jay Li
[B]Just an observation...I'm pretty sure that most Christians believe that god is perfect (if you don't, then ignore this post).
[B]Just an observation...I'm pretty sure that most Christians believe that god is perfect (if you don't, then ignore this post).
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by chroot
[B]Truth: Science really only requires faith in first principles -- in the axioms of rational thought, like the concept that 1 + 1 = 2, and the sum of the angles of a triangle are 180 in flat Euclidean space.
[B]Truth: Science really only requires faith in first principles -- in the axioms of rational thought, like the concept that 1 + 1 = 2, and the sum of the angles of a triangle are 180 in flat Euclidean space.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by chroot
[B]Truth: Science really only requires faith in first principles -- in the axioms of rational thought, like the concept that 1 + 1 = 2, and the sum of the angles of a triangle are 180 in flat Euclidean space.
[B]Truth: Science really only requires faith in first principles -- in the axioms of rational thought, like the concept that 1 + 1 = 2, and the sum of the angles of a triangle are 180 in flat Euclidean space.