Science was once a child of the church.
June 5, 2014 at 11:37 pm
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(June 5, 2014 at 11:30 pm)mickiel Wrote:(June 5, 2014 at 11:26 pm)GalacticBusDriver Wrote: The term "atheism" may not predate theism (duh), But, the lack of belief in gods certainly predates any beliefs in any gods.
I think that can only be true with humans who were before the time of Adam; which I believe existed, the scientific and Archaeological evidence is there. But I understand many here do not believe in God, thus in Adam, so I did not go there. I see civilization, or modern man, beginning with a knowledge and awareness of God, but that argument is useless on an Atheist board.
Founder of the Human Genome Project, and Evangelical Christian Francis Collins on the scientific untenability of Intelligent Design, and Adam and Eve.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_0qy6U-Rtk
You don't have to reject the idea of an omnipotent, creator because it doesn't fit the creation story precisely, authored by bronze-age primitives 2000 years ago, in a notoriously hard to translate language.
If by an awareness of "God" you must mean "the divine," as that's a part of our minds we've been tapping into since fire was discovered.
