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I see a celestial Darwin has put in an appearance
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RE: I see a celestial Darwin has put in an appearance
(February 12, 2013 at 6:05 pm)TheLameMayWalk Wrote: I do not believe creationism has to follow the same rules HUMANS have put forth in proving theories and other hypotheses (sp?). I believe it is above our minds and our reasoning.

Ah - then creationism fails the first criterion for being a science.

(February 12, 2013 at 6:05 pm)TheLameMayWalk Wrote: But think about it - creationism (and Christianity) can account for so many things: how the universe came into being, how we came into being, how everything around us has come into being in such a beautiful way (many scientific theories try to convince that these things just happened to align this way?)

What would these explanations be?

(February 12, 2013 at 6:05 pm)TheLameMayWalk Wrote: Granted, I have a limited understanding of evolution, but creationism seems to make much more sense to me. But again, I believe creationism is above us. I'm even uncomfortable giving it a term.

Limited understanding is not an insurmountable problem, as long as one is open to discovery. That's why the God hypothesis is not an answer, because (among other things) it instantly locks the mind from investigating further. It's like when you can't find your car keys; you look in the most obvious places until you find them, then you stop looking. But what if the keys you found are not your car keys? If you stop investigating, you may never find them.

As for what makes sense: unfortunately, the Universe is generally unaware and moreover uninterested in what makes sense to us. For centuries, rainbows were regarded as magical because nobody could figure out how they were so perfectly formed and how all those colours knew how to arrange themselves. Now, of course, most of us - with a few notable exceptions - not only know the secret to this magic, but would find such primitive musings rather silly.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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I see a celestial Darwin has put in an appearance - by Zone - February 12, 2013 at 7:24 am
RE: I see a celestial Darwin has put in an appearance - by Cyberman - February 12, 2013 at 6:19 pm

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