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Your teacher sounds like a nice fella.
That I have a sense of humour?
Other than that you have to ask how natural selection and evolution led to such an animal... but I wasn't being serious. I added the Babel Fish FFS.
Did I make one?
There isn't anything tangible, but that doesn't mean that God doesn't exist. Whatever theory you want to go with, there must have been a spark, something which set off a chain of events. No-one can prove what that was and so you cannot rule out divine intervention, neither can you rule it in. We just don't know.
Complete denial shows just as much a closed mind.
Oh. ha ha.
No, that was Fiend_85, my mistake.
I don't deny the possibility of a God, I never have. What I do take issue with however is people asserting that the weight of evidence is the same for the big bang as it is for god. It clearly isn't.
Because there is no evidence.
You did a law degree, not astrophyics I beleive?
I'd personally take greater satisfaction and meaning from the fact that every one of my ancestors was sufficiently strong, agile, intelligent and fertile to avoid all of life's hazards, find a mate and have the offspring that over numerous generations finally led to me. I exist because they beat the universe. Their efforts should be acknowledged and respected.
No, evolutionary.
I don't know much about astrophysics so am not really in a position to elaborate (nor is anyone else here I beleive) about Big bang theory but was under the impression that this was the best theory of the creation of the universe.
if this is the best theory then why teach others?
I think what is more fundamental than these kind of debates is the philosophy behind them.
A scientific approach is evidence based, religion is all about faith, not evidence etc.
They find that other religions see things slightly differently, even the same religion for Gods sake (no pun intended) cant make up its mind if its interpretations are correct, and so splits into sub sections of the same faith.
And so different sub sections and religions rub each other the wrong way untill one side snaps and all hell breaks loose, all because the religious leaders were taught as children that their faith is correct and all others are inferior.
Now if the childeren were taught to understand other religions at school in exactly the same ratio as their own, things might be alittle different.
The reason this doesnt happen is because the church doesnt want to loose their followers to other sects, as soon as they do that, they loose what ever power they have gained over the last 2005 years. The world maybe a better place but what ever the pope says will mean diddly squat, and we cant have that, now can we?
the big theory is fine with me ...but for most people who aren't realy taught much about it ...it just being thrown at them often as a statement leaves out the difficult stuff of the what went bang ...before the big bang there was no matter no space and no time.
so nowhere to go bang ...nothing to go bang ...and no moment existed for it to happen.
the bible ...well the bible says that it was all created by gods dynamic energy.
sounds good to me.
sounds like a big bang ...
What evidence?
As far as I remember religion was thrown at me by people who just ignored me when it came to the difficult questions - give me a break!
How do you know there was nothing before the "big bang", like possibly an entire universe that has been out there way before god was invented? Or is that also based on the evidence which brings about your faith?
Uh Huh - "god's dynamic energy" - how the hell did he get here? (You do realise that Man wrote the bible and not that burning bush, well there wouldn't be much left of it if it was!)
Are you serious or am I just being silly and missing the sarcasm again??
it doesnt take choice away from kids IMO
only in the same way that having parents of one faith would, or being made to attend church from an early age.
if someone wants to learn more about religion its all out there for them to find. and no amount of schooling will make someone believe what they don't wanna
What I mean is, having one-faith-only schools isn't helping people accept what's different than them at all. School isn't only about learning information, it's about learning society.
can argue that kids do that more through media than anything else nowadays
And what university is this?!! Don't believe that for a second, it's a fairy story. You can say what you like provided you provide explanation and a reasoned argument. Under no circumstances can they take marks off you for being critical, in fact that's what most law essays are asking you to do!!
Oh, and noone knows what really started the universe off. You can say the big bang, but what started that? You can say "electric fields" but what started those off? You could go on and on. It makes equal if not more sense than the big bang, that something divine and eternal has been constantly there.
as for MY faith ...i haven't said i've got any.
am i a believer?
i'm a questioner.
the evidence so far ...have you ever seen anything remotely simple ...appear and work ...by accident? a plant ... an internaql combustion engine ...a mobile phone?
if i told you that any of these t5hings just happened by chemicaql aqccident ...you would have grounds to have me certified maybe.