(January 10, 2015 at 8:23 pm)bob96 Wrote: My faith in God comes from the Bible.
So you believe the claim, because the claim says that the claim is true. Oh my.

Quote:The bible, ~6000 years ago said that the universe had a beginning. Scientists for centuries believed that the universe had no beginning. When evidence for a beginning began to appear, some leading scientists put up fierce resistance because they thought it would give too much support to those who believed in Creation. They did not get their way, however, as the evidence for a beginning was too strong.
We don't know about the whole universe, just the current expansionary state of it. Which you would know, if you weren't just looking for whatever confirms what you already believe.
Besides, if we found out tomorrow that the universe didn't have a beginning, you'd be either spinning the bible so that it "confirms" that new evidence, or disagreeing with the science based on the bible, right? The one conclusion you wouldn't come to based on that is that the bible was wrong.
Quote:Another reason for my faith in God is the complexity of life. Philosopher Antony Flew, for much of his life, was Richard Dawkin's predecessor as the world's most famous athiest. He frequently and vigorously debated Christians. However, in recent years, he has become convinced that biologists' investigation of DNA "has shown, by the almost unbelievably complexity of the the arrangements which are needed to produce life, that intelligence must have been involved."
Ah yes, the argument from ignorance regarding complexity; "I can't think of how this could have happened naturally, therefore it didn't." Sorry, but complexity is not exclusively a sign of design- in fact if you think of it simplicity is more a hallmark of design than complexity- and not knowing how it happened is not evidence for god. Try again.
Quote:Richard Dawkins himself flip-flopped on his position on the complexity of DNA.
"Flip flopping"? That's called "learning," champ. It's what you do when you gain more information, you change your position to suit the facts. Only a religious person would think that changing with the evidence is a sign of weakness.
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