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It really scares me.
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RE: It really scares me.
(January 15, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Yes, creation myths are as old as written texts. The problem is that they are always wrong because they were posited by people who were ignorant of the facts, similar to your speculation about a Creator. Who says it is blind coincidence? The laws of physics don't need a God to be ordered in such a way; as it seems, these laws are the only constants possible for our universe to exist. Perhaps other universes with other laws exist too. Why not put your "faith" in math and stop there? It's worked out pretty well for us thus far.

Of course they were wrong/ignorant about the scientific details of the actual processes involved but the general idea is that you have a period of formation in stages which originates from a deliberate point of creation by a single supreme intelligence. The evolution of the various different forms of life on Earth can therefore just be a part of the overall process of formation so there isn't really an issue with it. Every culture had their own creation myths of course, the one that eventually ended up in the Torah/Bible developed in the near East. But it can still be a revelation from God which contained certain truths separate to science but providing a context to what we understand through science.

I suppose you could have an infinite number of multiple universes each with their own unique laws of physics and we happen to be in the one that's right for life if that's you want to believe, but we're not in "the truth is staring you in the face!" territory. Even the Pope accepts in evolution as factual truth of reality.
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It really scares me. - by Vegamo - January 13, 2014 at 11:38 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Darkstar - January 14, 2014 at 12:59 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Minimalist - January 14, 2014 at 1:01 am
RE: It really scares me. - by ShaMan - January 15, 2014 at 12:40 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Ryantology - January 14, 2014 at 1:24 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Whateverist - January 14, 2014 at 2:09 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 15, 2014 at 12:34 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Crossless1 - January 15, 2014 at 12:46 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 15, 2014 at 1:08 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 15, 2014 at 2:04 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 15, 2014 at 2:53 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 15, 2014 at 3:22 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Bad Wolf - January 15, 2014 at 1:50 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Minimalist - January 15, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 15, 2014 at 3:04 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Minimalist - January 15, 2014 at 3:15 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 15, 2014 at 4:40 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by pocaracas - January 15, 2014 at 7:09 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 15, 2014 at 8:59 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Ryantology - January 15, 2014 at 9:45 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 16, 2014 at 10:24 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Whateverist - January 16, 2014 at 11:04 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 16, 2014 at 11:06 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Ryantology - January 16, 2014 at 7:18 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by pocaracas - January 16, 2014 at 7:13 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 16, 2014 at 11:22 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Whateverist - January 16, 2014 at 11:59 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 16, 2014 at 12:48 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 16, 2014 at 2:54 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Whateverist - January 17, 2014 at 7:39 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by pocaracas - January 16, 2014 at 12:33 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Sword of Christ - January 16, 2014 at 4:52 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by pocaracas - January 16, 2014 at 7:17 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 15, 2014 at 8:00 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 15, 2014 at 6:46 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Whateverist - January 16, 2014 at 9:01 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Ryantology - January 16, 2014 at 9:12 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Mudhammam - January 16, 2014 at 10:09 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Whateverist - January 16, 2014 at 11:07 am
RE: It really scares me. - by Minimalist - January 16, 2014 at 4:46 pm
RE: It really scares me. - by Angrboda - January 18, 2014 at 2:35 am

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