| redspear said: About the moon the diameter is only one par tbut it is also the distance. The moon used to much much closer and is slowly moving farther and farther away. The moon used to appear to be a lot bigger and blockked the entire sun more often. As for the earth having one of the best viewing spots of the universe? Not really Intergalatic space would have the best views of the universe. There is a lot we can't see and the atmosphere obscures most of our view as is. If an intelligent design was set around that than don't you think we would see the stars all day? Intelligent design does not account for a lot of things useless organs and genes. It doesn't account for cancer Downs Syndrome and hermaphiditism. It doesn't account for numerous genetic flaws that are introduced every day nor birth defects. It doesn't account for the high infant mortality rate of mankind before the advent of modern medicine. It doesn't account for a lot since most of evolution is actually unintelligent. |
There is still alot unknown to science, as far a 'junk' dna goes as time goes by those parts of the DNA have been proven to serve a purpose. Science use to teach the Glial cells in the brain didn't serve a function in thinking, now they think otherwise. In time science has come find Hubble's Constant is wrong. Hence the creation of dark matter, and energy. I find alot about science fascinating, but I find it constantly changing, things once accepted as fact have changed. Evolution itself has changed drastically since Darwin's original theory, so many subsequent theories have been proposed, so many ages and different theories of the big bang have been proposed. Alot will change as time goes on. And that's fine. But for me I have a hard time putting my trust in something I will believe will change, as it continues to do every day. meaning I choose to believe in my faith-based beliefs in the bible over science, when the seem to disagree. Now I know people are saying that evolution isn't contradicting religion, or God, and they also feel that ID is creationism in disguise but I also feel that's bias, Richard Dawkins is an Atheist, who is to say his religious beliefs or lack there of don't motivate his science? He more then once lashed out against religion, he obviously is opposed to it, I can just as easily accuse him of disguesing evolution as athiesm. And then you have a bioligst like Michael Behe, who did believe in evolution and what he had seen over time convinced him otherwise. But I'm not here to talk about ID I wouldn't even call what I believe is Intelligent Design( I'm not refering to the notion, I'm refering to the movement)
My beliefs you ask about, I believe the Bible didn't have an entire account about creation exclaiming that animals were made according to their kind just to be figuritive. Nor does the notion that that account being figuritive make much sense. I believe that account was as is, to tell us what happened. I believe if he used some sort of evolutionary process, it would have in some way shape or form been described like that. That's not to say I take everything literaly in the Bible, I don't think I'm hypocritical for that, I think the context of each section makes it clear. For example, the words in the bible that Galileo refuted to mean the earth stood still, I agree with him, it was not a literal account it poetic figurative statement, the context makes that clear. It uses plenty of illustrations as well. As far as the flood goes, I do believe that account. I'm not one of that young earth creationists, I know they say the bible says the earth was created in six days, but the bible also says a day is like a thousand years to God. This creation was also prior to an actual day. So I believe these days were called days in the sense that they were unspecified periods of time dedicated to each elements therein described.
About the star thing I'm thinking we can simply agree to disagree, but I look at these elements lineup up like this. The chances of it all coming together are like you throwing a 100 piece puzzle in the air and the pieces landing on the ground all in the right place. I don't care how many trillions of times you try it, it just won't happen. I know most will refute this illustration saying it's not accurate for whatever reason, that's just what my own logic tells me. If life has taught me anything its that nothing happens on it's own, nothing naturally falls into place. So I look at the universe how extradinary it is, how amazing life is and this planet, and with no amount reasoning can I accept it's without a creator.
