Something as incomprensible as the idea of "nothing from nothing" is similarly hard for us to understand that chemical evolution leads to consciousness & life is a natural outflow of this universe's set of quanta values. You say chemicals do not store information, cannot evolve, the famous chemist is struck dumb with awe that this exists. Good for you & him, hes not the only one,you're free to believe whatever about master wizard creators, its not the whole story.
As with evolution of life, one doesn't deny that we've seen certain modifying behaviors come to exist thur time, to say its all because of "christian values" is to miss the bigger picture, the truth of that continuum and adaptation.
There was a modifying trend, the Assyrians were fierce warlike destroyers, so were their gods that reflected that mindset, the Egyptians not so much but later were forced to become more warlike & prosecute against the Assyrians. Baylonians again, still primitive but coming along well with building Law & Order, the Persians rise up actually not the bad guys we think, the Greeks had plenty of slavery & barbarism, though democracy was good, people flourished well under the Persian and here much of the OT comes.
Later we see the culimination in the Roman Empire, then another wave of disolution in the human experience, all the while the arms race is constantly going on. Christianity is as much a product of that process as all the rest. |
