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2005-08-03

What is All the Fighting About Evolution vs. Creation

Ok as if there is not enough fighting going on in the world. Now the scientist and the Christians are squaring off over how all this mess started. I would laugh at the irony of it all if it were not so sad. Nothing quite as ludicrous as so called non-believers and so called true believers fighting over something that neither one can know for sure.

Whether a person prescribes to the idea of the big bang theory or the idea that a living power started and created all they both have faith. Now my non-believing friends would twist a little at that claim however think about it. The big bang theory takes faith in the laws of physics does it not.

Now for my true-believer friends they may squirm a little when I suggest for them to have faith that a living power (most of them would call God) started and created all of this they also most have faith that the laws of physics are true. OUCH! I know that one is hard to swallow.

My theory is this, we all suffer from a war of semantics and that is to say some people call it Science and some people call it God, I think we all speak of the same thing. OUCH again, I know.

Peace and Love

Joe

Posted at 05:51:59 PM | Post Comment | Read Comments (3)

Comment posted by gweiss at 2005-08-04 06:02:22

Very, very interesting reading, Joe! However, the theory of evolution is just that - a theory; as all of science, a constant testing in an effort to explain the miracles of the universe as something other than a divine source. Those of us with God in our hearts need no such proof of His existence.~

Comment posted by jsad1 at 2005-08-05 08:05:39

Interesting gweiss. For me it is not about proof of God as you say it is about how that power has moved things forward and the method seems to be evolution. Now I am unsure what it means when you say, "Those of us with God in our hearts". It sounds as if it may be a judgement of whether someone that believes in evolution could not at the same time believe in God.

If that is what is meant I can say for me it is not true. I am a firm believer in a living power that has created all I see and hear and smell and touch. At the same time I am a firm believer in the methods this power has choosen to use is evolution and the laws of physics as we are coming to discover these laws.

Now I will admit that there are just as many people on both sides of the debate that claim it can only be either creationism or evolution. It is at that point I again say it is a problem of semantics we are all really talking about the same thing.

Peace and Love
Joe

Comment posted by zoe at 2005-08-09 10:16:52

this argument never made sense to me at all! it always seemed like instead of arguing with the theory, they are arguing with each other. I've never learned one thing in science that didn't further prove God. It's just logical!

i once has a science teacher who told me that you couldn't be a scientist and still believe in creation. BAH! how's the story of creation so different from evolution?
step one: god made the heaven and earth, or,
step one: bang! all of a sudden there was the universe.
step two: god started making living things on it, or,
step two: magically, atoms started coming together randomly and just so happened to make life!

i see what you're saying joe, and not only are they both faith based - where's the argument please? i really don't get it!

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What is All the Fighting About Evolution vs. Creation

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