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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (502)	5/9/2001 12:45:04 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

I like the Raphael. Science is wonderful. It is not the only way to know things, though. Rather, it is a system of investigation and verification that works quite well for the purposes to which it is put. The least that can be said is that God strains credulity no more than current theories. What is a virtual vacuum, existing before time and space, that somehow experiences a "quantum event", generating proto- matter and leading to the Big Bang? One may as well believe in God, it makes at least as much sense. No one should feel bound by the exact account offered in Genesis, anyway. There are two different accounts, a clear signal that neither is to be taken literally, but that each teaches something complementarity (unless the editor was a goof and didn't notice). The best answer I can give for why the dinosaurs existed is petroleum. Why take the time to process it naturally, instead of just putting it into the ground? Because God, as much as possible, follows the rules He established, and is economical with miracles. Why should the time involved matter to Him? In that sense, maybe there was a use for those millions of years, to set things right for the rise of humanity. A lot of the fudging in evolutionary theory is suspicious to me. I still can't figure out how Atlantic eels would evolve the instinct of returning to the Sargasso Sea to spawn, and then having the offspring repopulate the myriad areas from which their parents came. Were there French eels who made it to the bay side of Atlantic City, and did their offspring get confused and head for Sicily, as the tendency incrementally developed? And if so, why not just go, well, wherever? But I don't know if I can formulate it so that it is clear that it couldn't happen that way by chance and incremental change. Oh well......