JacksColon wrote:I hate to be mean here, but you started it:
Are you that stupid? Religion and myth are used to explain the unexplainable also, however, it is done so in a way that does not require verification or validation. So, okay, this guy created the world...there, done. How do we test that? we can't....
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We can look at lots of empirical evidence (look the word up, it'll do you some good) from observations and data and develop sound theories for the creation and formation of our universe, among other things. Sure, we often come up with new questions but that's the exciting part. And that's the nature of science, trying to peel back the layers of the "onion" to figure out what is really going on. Not trusting the word of a book written by multiple different people, over hundreds of years, translated into greek and then edited by an English King to his liking. Sorry. If you believe in the bible and god, then you believe the earth was created in 6 days and that god rested on the 7th. God gets tired??!???!!! he's Farking god! also, if you believe that, you're an idiot, sorry but it's true.
I like to take both religion and science into account. I'm a (computer) scientist myself, but I'm also a Christian. The Bible says that the world was created in 6 days, and God rested on the 7th day (was it because he was tired, or just he stopped creating stuff...?). However, I don't think it specifies that "a day" is a 24-hour Earth-Day. If the Bible is indeed God's word, information He told someone to write down, then God could say "a day" that represents millions of years. "A day" is relative. "A day" in our solar system is much different to "a day" in some other galaxy.
Science tells us that the world was created through this long evolutionary process, perhaps all starting with a Big Bang billions of years ago. Could it be possible that some omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal diety, let's call him God, caused that entire process to happen? From what I've seen, the Bible doesn't deny that evolution happened. It basically just says that God created various things each "day", but doesn't say how he did it.
Even if God had nothing to do with the inner workings of evolution and the details of creating the universe to what it is today, and assuming the Big Bang did indeed happen, where did that dust cloud, or particle of dust or whatever started it all come from? Do you believe that it was just floating through this vast void for all eternity until BOOM it turned into a universe?
I just don't see anything wrong with using religion to explain things that science cannot, yet, explain. I don't see it as a crutch.