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Wow, everyone's in this thread right now. pssst... RÃ*an... see my post about the thread re-name. ^
Anyway, I was parusing the summary posts again RÃ*an, and I noticed you said your belief in Creationism is independant of your being a Christian. Since you put it in the summary posts you've probably dealt with this before, but I wonder if they are independant, really. Would you still believe in Creationism if you weren't Christian? If you were, say, Hindu, you wouldn't even believe in the keystone of Creationism, God (the Christian one). Doesn't that pose a major problem to that statement?
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hey nurvi, we did try to discuss other religions and their views on creationism - few pages back
if this is supposed to be a debate, but the whole thread has been renamed for one side of an argument only, how is this debate, anyone else see the paradox? |
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Creationism is a sub-category of Creation by Intelligent Design (by a being/beings more powerful than humans). If I were Hindu, I would think a Hindu god created things. Does that explain it?
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I think it would be hard to make a God-free post though, as a divine being is rather essential to Creationism and Creation by Intelligent Design (CID). However, I don't think that makes the theory bad or completely unscientific. What is science exactly? Must it be completely devoid of philosophy? Could you not make the argument that all science is a type of philosophy, since it's another way to try to explain the world around us? My braaaaain... I seem to fall in a category all of my own... I believe the Theory of Evolution is the closest theory we have to the truth, and I believe God meant for it to happen. (Now everyone disagrees with me! Yay! )
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"The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause" Sounds like a god like being to me.
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Yes, Chrys, there is a difference. Theistic evolution (good name) is like this, to me anyway: I think God set the Big Bang in motion. God created the earth in the sense of bringing together all the possible elements necessary to make the Earth in a very subtle way. Not just *poof* world! It's more like God was a catalyst for circumstances which brought about circumstances with allowed parts of the world to come together. I don't think God is some distant being that, having made everything, sits on a throne and watches. I think God is in the molecules and DNA and trees etc. etc. My personal beliefs are much more weighted on the Evolution side, since I think that's how God meant it to be. When extraordinary circumstances came about allowing life to form (I actually do know what ToE says about the first RNA chains, but my brain just died and I don't have my biology notes to give details), God helped that happen. Do you guys see what I mean? Should I go on? I will if this is a desired post. Important note: In this post, I am not saying anything about the beliefs of others. Infer nothing (except about me).
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