Evidence God Exists: Part II

[Autumnlicious]

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...I think the existence of the universe itself is evidence of the existence of God...

I’m not one of those Christians who think every single thing we see around us necessarily points towards the existence of God. However, there are certain things which definitely posses a quality of intelligent design. Besides what I’ve mentioned in my threads, here are some other examples…

Fire: Fire is crucial to man, and only man uses fire. It has been essential for the development of our species. I challenge anyone to name any other species that exclusively uses an element of nature.

The fact that water destroys fire is another clue. While fire is so destructive, it was so instrumental to man that we had no choice but to utilize it. But we needed a way to control it. Water is such a way. It is a gentle, everyday mineral, and yet it so easily extinguishes such a destructive force of nature. Can you think of any other ‘everyday’ mineral which can easily destroy or put out another force of nature? (I’m not talking about scientific inventions or discoveries, which are only accessible to those who created them. I’m talking about ‘everyday’ minerals ubiquitous on this earth, accessible to everyone).

Smoke: Again, fire has been a necessity for the survival of man, and yet it is so dangerous and destructive. Without smoke fire would creep up and destroy people and their resources. The fact that there is smoke, and the pungent smell of smoke, shows that we were intelligently provided with fire as a tool, though there’s a built in mechanism meant to be a warning system.

There's a mind behind the set of rules by which fire, smoke and water relate to one another.

Medicinal Plants and Herbs: There is a plant or herb pretty much for every ailment out there. Some medicines today are still manufactured using plants or herbs, at least in part. Banana skins alone have a powerful antioxidant and strong healing benefits. Looking at this from an angle open to intelligent design, you can see how someone might be looking out for us.

Jet Stream: The jet stream is a complex maze in the ocean. Heat essential to life is distributed through this stream throughout the earth. The complexity and accuracy of the jet stream is indication of intelligent design.

Bananas: If you observe how apes and certain natives and people peel bananas, you will have a clearer understanding of the following. Bananas have a handle at one end, which is how most people peel bananas. However, peeling it this way can sometimes mush the banana at that end and can be awkward. But if you peel the banana by pressing on the opposite tip and peeling from that end, you’ll end up with a perfect banana. There’s no reason for the banana’s survival as a species to have developed such a tip. It looks like someone out there has provided a means to easily peel the world’s most popular fruit without mangling the inside.

Coconut: This fruit has a hard shell. But each coconut has three circular indentations, resembling the holes of a bowling ball, which have softer textures. Have we been provided a way to get to the juice of this fruit, which has a hard outer shell?

Guitar calluses: I play guitar, and I was thinking about the calluses one develops on the fingers after playing for a while. For those of you who are not musicians, when a person first plays guitar, the strings hurt the fingers. But after a few weeks, guitarists develop calluses on the tips of their fingers, which protect their fingers from the strings, and it no longer hurts to play. Calluses on feet hurt when you press or walk on them. And yet the calluses on your guitar fingers have just the opposite effect. Is someone out there enabling us to play an instrument?

These are just a few examples. They are things that when I gave it some thought I said "Wow, there's someone behind this work."

Atheists love to point to things such as world starvation, and the death of the innocent, using these examples to demonstrate there’s no God. I’m employing the same principles in reverse, by pointing to things that have the quality of intelligent design.

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Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I am going to define you a word. The word is anthropomorphism - ascribing human traits or actions to things that normally would never have such ascribed to it. This is a wonderful example of thick headed thinking, believing everything to be carefully thought out.

How many horrible examples of the world showing your "god" to be a horribly inadequate pillock will it take against your very few examples of "good"? A hundred? A thousand? A million?

How many will it take before you realize that the "good" you see is merely an illusion brought on by calling a hammer something completely different.

A hammer is a hammer. A coconut is a coconut. And an idiot named AngelThman is an idiot.