(August 18, 2023 at 5:15 pm)Barry Wrote: So how did the world begin?
My answer is that science proves nothing can be created from nothing in our material world, so the only explanation is that something external created the world. And that is what we call God.
Science did explain that the world was created by particles from exploded stars.
But if you are talking about the universe then the universe always existed, even before the big bang. Before the big bang universe was in a state of very hot and dense matter that then started expanding.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"