[QUOTE=bravehart_70_2000,15 May 2003 - 22:47]
But in the end what the occult boils down to is this.....
Do you believe in a higher power than yourself?
<No, but I do hope there is one.>
Personally I do believe in the Lord God and in Christ. EVERYTHING in this universe as we can percieve it is to logical and orderly to be the product of chaos and natural selection.
<I have two points for you:
1. How did you decide on Christianity over the 1000s of other Religions? The big problem with Christianity is that you must accept Christ into your heart to be your savior or you go to hell. Most people who have ever existed, have never even heard of Christ, so they all went to hell?
2. To me, creating God to explain our existence simply differs the question. The question then becomes, who created God?
I've heard the answer before, "he has always been and will always be, he is outside of time". Whatever. You either believe that or you don't, you can't discuss it any further. I call this "the black box".
So for me, by creating God, we explain a complex situation, by creating a more complex one.>
As we as a species mature we are finding more and more order in the universe not the chaos we were taught to believe in school( based on darwins theroy).
<Darwins theory has nothing to do with chaos in the universe.
To put it succinctly, the theory of evolution describes the rules which dictate the diversification of living matter. Usable energy comes in many forms and each living form tries to find its own way to utilize this energy( a niche).
Within a population natural selection occurs by the survival of the fittest.
Within a species, diversification occurs when common ancestors are separated geographically and are subject to different environmental conditions, selecting for different genes. The longer the separation and the more divergent the environments, the greater the alteration from the common parent organism.
I think you are referring to the 2nd law of thermodynamics which states that with every "event" chaos (random energy) increases.
To me, evolution kind of breaks down when it comes to first creation, and it almost takes as much faith to take this jump as does any religion. This is too complex to explain here.
In the end, I see both evolution and creation to be mutually exclusive and can therefore live together happily.
Evolution (adaptation to change in environment over time to create diversification) is etched in stone solid fact.>
I have plenty left to say, but this is enoughto chew on for now.
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