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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Tillerman on Saturday 02 Jul 2011 10:00 : \____
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>>> I know I am going to regret this, but having been brought up as a devout
>>> Lutheran, earning a degree in structural engineering, I just can't
>>> quantify this concept......
>>>
>>> Do I believe God created the universe in a 7 day stretch?
>>> Nope.
>>> The dinosaurs and evidence of evolution, carbon dating etc are proof
>>> this is not the case.
>>> Either God fucked up or there is more to the story.
>>>
>>> Yet, do I discredit the Bible?
>>> Nope again.
>>> Because much of the Bible has been proven, scientifically.
>>> Not all...Not by a longshot...but a decent amount.
>>> I can't swallow Jonah and the whale.
>>> Nor do I believe Noah had every flea on the ark, yet archeology shows us
>>> the flood DID occur...
>>> Soddam and Gomohrra have been found, so they say.
>>> Go figure.
>>>
>>> So my question is, where did the first one come from?
>>> Assuming the big bang.
>>> Evolution.
>>> Etc.
>>>
>>> Where did "whatever" that started it all come from?
>>>
>>> Basic science tells us matter cannot be created nor destroyed it just
>>> changes state, so where did the inital matter come from?
>>>
>>> Sounds like God, or some supreme being to me.......
>>
>> And where did God (or supreme being) come from? Who created God? You could
>> save a spurious step of complexity.
>
> God, supreme being, alien,etc always existed....
> See how evolution goes down the tubes?
None of these exists, at last based on evidence. If you prove otherwise, then the argument can be inverted.
But to disprove the existence of something whose existence was never proven would be ludicrous.
> No matter how you slice it, someone, something has always been there to
> make all the other stuff happen.
Yes, the speed of life, forces of gravity, etc. If you want to call these "God", then it's
the Einsteinian God and merely a metaphor for physics.
> It doesn't matter if you take the scientific approach or the religious
> approach, something, someone has always been there.
What is the difference between something and a someone?
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