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Old 07-02-2007   #100 (permalink)
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Default Re: Evolution, Fact or Fiction?

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do you believe that evolution started life?
Noone beleives evolution started life, evolution doesnt even intend to explain that, evolution merely explains the diversity of life we see today and in fossil records. Abiogenesis is the study of how life is created, and while there are many different and great theories, none are at the point we can say THAT is the one. Id dare say mainly because its impossible to conduct an experiment for it (contamination and size issues mainly). But because dont conclusively know how it happened does not mean god did it, it means we dont know yet.

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do you have utmost faith in science?
Its impossible to have faith in something that works on empirical observation. There is speculation into whats unknown of course. But they still arent counted as truths until someone finds evidence.



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when it keeps changing
plum pudding for example "the atom"
why then rely on it for your determiniation to disprove God
Science changes, but generally not in the way you think, it just gets more accurate. Though yes occasionally there is a big breakthrough no longer able to be modelled by teh old theory. That doesnt mean the old theory was outright wrong, it had worked fine up until the point of change. Its just less right now. Hell older theories are often taught in schools as its easier to understand for example Newton's Theory of Gravity is able to approximate most situations just fine, though Einstein's General Relativity, is more accurate, its also harder to understand.




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Einstein believed in god, whatever he ment by it i dont know,
Einstein beleived in Spinoza's God, or a pantheistic deity, this is very unlike the Christian god, and some considered it a step towards modern atheism.

Pantheism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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if there is no God as you believe
and you see a child in the hospital suffering after all possible treatments have been tried

would you rather end his suffering(kill) or leave him be?

assume no laws/reprecussions
which is better?
If the child wanted to die, and there wasnt any hope for him to get better, then I beleive it would be fine to euthanase him
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