Future of Christianity in US
December 5, 2014 at 9:26 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2014 at 9:35 am by Jhayward.)
esquilax: Well I am impressed you looked up something having to do with the book. I dont buy your argument against fine tuning. It seems to me one of those things where one could argue that your assumptions/beliefs before looking at the data could push you either way. If you decide there is no way fine tuning exists, it never will. There is always something that can explain life, for example-- it came from another planet, everything is possible with so many planets out there, multiverses, aliens, etc.
And yes, macroevolution is a theory where parts of the findings can be falsified. They somebody can come up with the next best thing.
robvalue: If someones eternity hangs in the balance, isnt it only fair -- one could argue, not that God needs to be fair as far we judge it-- to make faith so easy that even a child could accept it? Even so, I argue that those children could grow up to be brilliant scientists. So I think the two are rather independent, although the former (faith) is much more important than the latter (intelligence, superior reasoning, etc). Jesus was quoted as saying numerous times that if one cannot be like a child, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. But many on this forum will call that path of a myth.
And yes, macroevolution is a theory where parts of the findings can be falsified. They somebody can come up with the next best thing.
robvalue: If someones eternity hangs in the balance, isnt it only fair -- one could argue, not that God needs to be fair as far we judge it-- to make faith so easy that even a child could accept it? Even so, I argue that those children could grow up to be brilliant scientists. So I think the two are rather independent, although the former (faith) is much more important than the latter (intelligence, superior reasoning, etc). Jesus was quoted as saying numerous times that if one cannot be like a child, he cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. But many on this forum will call that path of a myth.
