i believe that god created the earth, I find it hard to believe that everything here was an accidint another thing, if evolution is real then what was the source that coused the big bang? just wanted to get your thoughts on this.
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Both. If God were to put his powerinto one specific point and create space and time, what do you think we would get?...A Big Bang. I don't see that there is any problem with believing in both!
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Both. \n\nWho did it?  God.\nWhat did God do?  Create the heavens and the Earth.\nHow did God do it? By using techniques available at such a high order that only today are scientists beginning to understand some of the complexities of it all.\n\nSee, scientists and theologists are climbing up the same hill, but on different sides of the hill.  Once they get to the top, they will be able to see that they were both achieving the same goals and truths.  \n\nThe fact that the things God created are believed to be from magic is amazing.  Understand that the "Big Bang" theory does not exclude God's presence, but only accounts for the forces at work to produce the universe.  This is the "science" of God.  Remember, God has Angels to assist in accomplishing the Will of God.\n\nThe method God used to create the universe appeared to later scientists as the "Big Bang."  Liken this to the explosion of a kernal of corn that creates a different looking product called "popcorn."  Now, imagine yourself as a fly on the wall.  Could you understand what just happened to that kernel of corn?  Would you call it magic because you didn't understand the series of events taking place to alter the kernel's appearance?\n\nWell, this is far from the relativity of human's intelligence compared to an entity that has been around for before the beginning time as we know it.\n\nJust remember, the "Big Bang" theory only explains the processes to produce the universe, not the authors of those processes.
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I agree that the Universe was created by a higher being. I don't agree that said being created man at all. However, I do think that by becoming aware of ourselves and simply believing in said being's existence that said being is now aware of us. I don't believe that God/Diety/whatever you want to call it really gives a damn what we do. Anyway...I think that all beings, sentient or otherwise, that exist in the Universe are a result of the divine and since the divine makes no mistakes we are as we were meant to be. Flawed but still here. Still trying to find the meaning of it all.
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Creation... Evolution is said to be based on logic but even the smartest professors in whatever it is that they do admit that evolution has never been proven... The whole Big Bang thing... If it were true where did that little molecule com from??? Get real people... God created everything...
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It sounds like a world in the book "wrinkle in time" where the world is controlled by "IT." Divirsity is good because ideas pop up faster. And i do not believe god created the earth. Everything has a scientific explanation, but i thing god created the big bang.
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The Big Bang is not a theory of the earth's origin. It is a theory of the origin of the whole universe. The earth wasn't formed until about 8.7 billion years after the universe started.\n\nThe predominant views of the origin of the earth are all variants of the nebular hypothesis which states that a cloud of gas and dust collapsed forming the sun and the solar system. There was a period of intense collisions where the planets grew through accretion. Most of the volatile chemicals (hydrogen, helium) were blown away from the planets near the sun due to solar wind (which was more intense when the sun was young).
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The theory of the big bang doesn't explain things before it. But usually it's believed that before the creation of the universe there was energy concentrated or concentrating to the critic point where it blasted and spreaded through universe. The Big Bang theory is'nt the only theory about the creation of the universe, only the most accepted, you could find very interesting and different ideas. I don't like religious answers because their principal argument is faith and since faith can't be proven or refuted, I don't think it can be used as a valid argument, sounds tautologic for me (in logic, tautology is an statement that is ever true).
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My dads a christian minister, and he believes in evolution - he says that the creation story in the bible is like a parable, but in acutal fact it took much much longer than 7 days to create everything, and evolution is part of god's plan - it's how he created everything.  He says that evolution cannot be agrued with, as there are no holes in the 'theory' - it is a fact, not a theory,  so the only sensible way to look at the creation story is as a parable.
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Hats off to you!  You have made very good, logical arguments for creation.  The more I learn about the universe, its orderliness and all its wonders, the more I have to believe that a super being is responsible for it.\nUnfortunately, most athiests will never change their minds, no matter how logical your arguments are.
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Hello Rendier.. :)\n\nI just heard the other day, a scientist that said that you cannot produce something out of nothing..\n\nSo how then can they say, that the universe came from nothing..\n\nGod created the Heavens and the Earth..that makes more sense..It just seems to easy for those that do not believe in God..
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I wonder the same thing. But I believe God created the world. I don't believe in evolution. It just doesn't make sense!
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Re.:  Dinosaurs \n\n\nI believe that God created upon this earth PRIOR TO Genesis 1:1-31, 2:1-3.\n\nI believe God destroyed all prior creation (Gen.1:2) to bring forth man created in God's likeness (Gen.1:26), with an UNBROKEN lineage beginning with Adam.\n\n\n\nPat (ndbpsa ©)
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This is an interesting subject. First of all I do belive in God&Creationalism, but however Im not very religous.Before God created Adam and Eve there must have been life on Earth.\nPerhaps God chose the Earth to put Man on because it was a very viable place to live. In Genisis chapter one it is written "In the begining God created the heavens and the Earth, and the Earth was VOID and WHITHOUT form" "Then the Spirit of the Lord moved apon the face of the deep... Its hard to say really, but in my opinion this is similar to the way science sugests that it all began, on a barren rocky world filled with an endless sea with which life could proliferate. There is evidence on the surface of the Earth that sugests that massive impacts from space have occured. Perhaps before the time of Man, the Earth was filled with Dinosaurs and 'quote' other prehistoric life and it was a great place for LIFE. Then one day for a reason known only to God, he chose to destroy the Earth with an asteroid so massive that it compleatly decimated everything, and left the planet, dark, void, and without proper form. The neanderthal men, in my opinion are evidence of somthing else mentioned in the Bible. In Genisis chapter six it says "the sons of God saw the beatiful women of the human race, and took any they wanted as there wives...in those days and even after GIANTS lived on the Earth" .The sons of God probly refers to angelic beings. Neanderthals were supposed to be much larger, and more robust then regular  humans of today. I think I have seen a few shows on the Discovery channle about human evolution, and acording to science, neanderthals, and humans most likely lived side by side. Then for reasons unknown, there was only MAN left as if the neanderthal died out. What about the great Mammoths, Sloths, Sabertoothed Cats, among other animals? I think that they, and the neanderthals were not included on NOAHS ARK. There is so much information to think about! Even so, there is still a lot of mystery. I do know one thing, all the PERFECT laws of the universe, from GRAVITY to MAGNATISIM, to PHYSICS just prove that that the universe was created intelligently, and beatifully might I ad. Sorry to type so much I have wandered about these issues too. Please remember that I was just speaking hypotheticaly on the what ifs. Hope I helped a little.
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Contrary to some of your answers, I have never thought that the Big Bang theory or the Theory of Evolution and the Bible were mutually exclusive.\n\nPerhaps we are finally learning some of God's methods of Creation.
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No one "discoverd" the Big Bang - it is a theory, not a fact - just like evolution.\n\nIf you believe in God and believe that God created the universe you can still believe in the Big Bang theory - it may be the method in which He created the universe. \n\nBut to believe in the Big Bang theory without believing in God is a Big Mistake. "Nothing" cannot begat something, whether it is the universe, or life. To believe that out of nothing all of a sudden something came into existence defies good science. Even science iteself had to start somwhere - it could not come out of nothing!\n\nLife did not begin in some premordial ooze as the result of a reaction between certain chemicals catalyzed by sunlight. That theory is sheer stupidity and requires more faith to believe than it does to believe in God.
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We know that evolution exists. Science can prove it. We also know that modern man was created by God, the Bible proves that! So what about all those creatures that existed on the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years? Of course they evolved. And some of them very much resemble modern man. But God said He created us in His image. Maybe not necessarily physically, God doesn't have a body! But the difference between us and those creatures is indeed that "missing link" that cannot be "found". The link is God. The difference is that we (modern man) were created with a free will. No other creatures have ever had that. \n\nIf you read Genesis 1:1 you see that God created the heaven and earth. But something very drastic happened probably over a very long period of time between verse one and two because we see in verse two that the earth was without form, and void...\nNow what does God create that is without form and void? Nothing! Everything God creates is perfect.\nSo what happened and how many years passed between verse one and verse two? Science tells us that, there's no mystery. Creatures of all kinds evolved, the popular idea is something hit the earth and tilted it on it's axis. That triggered all kinds of weather changes, ice ages countered by global warming (without benefit of fossil fuels I might add), dinosaurs lived and died off. Primitive man-like creatures became dominant. It's all there!\n\nSo yes, you can believe in God and understand that creatures indeed evolved. But modern man, with all of his uniqueness, was created by God.\n\nNow concerning your lack of passion for your faith... read Acts Chapter 2 in the New Testament a couple of times and see if that piques your interest. I'll guarantee you have never been taught that in the catholic church. You need to ask yourself why. It is clear by the scriptures that Jesus intends that everyone with a love for the truth receive the gift of the Holy Ghost just as described in Acts 2. Read it again! It still happens just that way. It's still real. I see it every week. I see the power of the Spirit being used through ordinary people like you and me. Ordinary people like Jesus and the disciples were. Jesus didn't come and die so that we would have to seek everything we needed through a priest. He came that we could boldy go directly to Him with our needs. That is scripture! You need forgiveness? You need to ask Jesus, not another man. You need compassion and love? Ask Jesus, don't ask another man. Do you want to understand exactly what He has for you in this life and the next? You need to ask Him, not some portly old fellow in a black robe. Ask God directly. Go boldly to the throne and tell Him you need to know more. You will be amazed what you will experience if you are sincere and have enough character!\n\nUpdate 5-1-06\nI read with interest one of the answers below that demonstrates exactly what is wrong with the churches today. Sure, just ask someone (other than God). And if you don't like that answer just go ask someone else. That say's two things:\n1. The "authotities" in the churches don't even agree on truth.\n2. People only are interested in what they want to hear.\n\nThat's what I meant when I said God will show you the truth if you seek it from Him with a true desire to know. Why ask another man who has no clue anyway? We are talking about something as important as the salvation of your soul. Why wouldn't you go directly to the source if the source asked, indeed pleaded with you, to do so?\nAnd Paul absolutely did not encourage people to believe whichever way was best for them. He wrote to the Ephesians in Ep. 4:5 that there is "One Lord, one faith, one baptism". You see this repeated throughout the New Testament. There are not many paths to God, there is one.  Please, read the scriptures for yourself. You do not need someone to interpret the Bible for you. Let God show you
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i read your blog and nothing anyone can tell you here could be more satisfying than your theory.  you're going to get people either just saying one or the other, or explaining to you what the big bang is or why god is important.  the way you integrated everything in your head is good, and you should be happier with that than any answer from either side anyone may give you.  i agree, except my opinions lean more toward the science side because of my classes in biology and such.  i like where you said god got bored, that's a good way of looking at it.  i think even after the big bang, he played less of a role as people think, like maybe he guided along evolution or something, created that first spark of life and plays with mutations here and there, little experiments.  You'd probably have to take more bio courses to realize how much evidence there actually is for evolution and how smoothly it goes and stuff, but for now, your idea will work better than anyone from either side.\n\noh, as far as your latest blog thing, you would get stuck in the center of the earth, not go all the way through and pop out the other side, because gravity is measured from the center of an object..  Gravity would decrease as you went down, until you got to the center, where you would be weightless, but you wouldn't be able to 'fall' back up, because you would be pulled to the center again.  Everyone on all parts of the earth experience gravity to the same degree.