Is the Christian God and Devil story kind of like the Scientist that created Frankenstein?
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The SCIENTIST was Frankenstein.  The monster had no name.  Just for that, I'll assume that you don't know the rest of what you're talking about, either.
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If by Lucifer, you mean the ancient god of good hope symbolized by the morning star, then yes. If you mean the Christian demonetization of Lucifer into a devil, then no.
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From amazon.com:\n\n"Editorial Reviews\n\nAmazon.com\nAre Christianity and science incompatible? If there is a God, is he only an impersonal starter force? An introductory high school biology class first propelled Lee Strobel toward a life of atheism. God and science, he reasoned, were mutually exclusive. When the former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune converted to Christianity, he decided to investigate the science he had once accepted as truth. Did science point toward or away from God? As Strobel interviews a variety of scientists on everything from debunking evolutionary icons to the implications of the Big Bang to the existence of the human soul, he builds his case: scientific evidence points toward Intelligent Design. \nAlthough the discussion often veers into the academic, Strobel works hard to make it accessible to those without scientific training. Throughout the book, he salts interview transcript information with interesting personal stories of his own spiritual and scientific quest for knowledge, as well as sometimes over-detailed descriptions of the actual interviews (right down to the type of beverages consumed). Each chapter contains suggestions for further reading on particular issues of science and faith. \n\nStrobel concludes that, when correctly interpreted, science and biblical teaching support each other. He quotes physicist Paul Davies, "…science offers a surer path to God than religion." Open-minded readers will find that this book, and its questions for reflection and group study, invites conversation and investigation.--Cindy Crosby \n\nFrom Publishers Weekly\nStrobel, whose apologetics titles The Case for Christ and The Case for Faith have enjoyed strong popularity among evangelicals, approaches creation/evolution issues in the same simple and energetic style. The format will be familiar to readers of previous Case books: Strobel visits with scholars and researchers and works each interview into a topical outline. Although Strobel does not interview any "hostile" witnesses, he exposes readers to the work of some major origins researchers (including Jonathan Wells, Stephen Meyer and Michael Behe) and theistic philosophers (including William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland). Strobel claims no expertise in science or metaphysics, but as an interviewer he makes this an asset, prodding his sources to translate jargon and provide illustrations for their arguments. At times, the interview format loses momentum as seams begin to show between interview recordings, rewrites, research notes and details imported from his subjects' CVs (here, Strobel's efforts at buffing his subjects' smart-guy credentials can become a little too intense). The most curious feature of the book—not uncommon in the origins literature but unusual in a work of Christian apologetics—is that biblical narratives and images of creation, and the significance of creation for Christian theology, receive such brief mention. Still, this solid introduction to the most important topics in origins debates is highly accessible and packs a good argumentative punch. "
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This is going to be a tongue and cheek answer.  So bear with me.  If you consider god as an alien from a different universe whos technology is more advanced than ours,  god is the seed of science.  If you consider god as a spirit who directs us humble human beings, he is the parent of science.  And if you believe in god, why isn't his name capitalized?
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You have an interesting point, but God can do anything and if things change (like evolution) GOD could stop it and alter it if God wanted to.\n\nIt is also said "God" has a plan for everything.  We have the genome, is that God's plan?\n\nScience is going to face this in 500 years.\n\nScience is going to try and "create life" or make "intellegent design" with gene splicing, genome altering,etc.\n\nWhat will SCIENCE do when the unexpected happens!\n\nLike it or not we have to go back to Science Fiction writers.\n\nPhil K. Dick Do Anderoids Dream of Electric Sleep (Blade Runner).\n\nOr to Mary Shelly (Frankenstein)\n\nWhat do you do when your creation GETS OUT OF HAND.\n\nGod considered wiping us out more than once.\n\nWhat will Science do\n\nProbably the BEST parable I have read was Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD\n\nWhere Mustapha Man, the fearless leader, allowed the Alpha + Pscyhologists embryo to continue despite an error in the chemical imbalance due to alchol being introduced which was not supposed to be introduced.\n\nThis is a very complex dark comedy of errors.\n\nIt will face our scienctists in 500 to 1,000 years when we play GOD and we will play GOD.
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I think it's a GREAT question. While I've not read the story, I'm familiar with it (who isn't familiar if you've been through public high school?)\n\nPersonally, I think that Frankenstein is the monster. He created life, his child if you will, and then left it out there for the world to mold. His monster was a product of nurture vs. nature. While he was built ugly on the outside, he had a pure heart and simply wanted companionship. Society rejected him and was violent toward him, leading him to follow their example and retaliate.
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Good question. Now, I am a Christian, so, will answer from my perspective and understanding. God is a being that is highly advanced in, intelligence and has the capability to Create. Not only life!!! He/She/it can bring into existence anything. Thus, through this creation, He does has Absolute power. This makes God all seeing, all knowing and all powerful. He can see, past, present and future from one time zone, so, he know what you did, are doing and will do. He expresses a concern for humanity (This is even seen it Highly intelligent children, so, NOT a myth). He would allow his creation to learn and experience life, both good and bad. He has emotions, He/She/It can laugh, cry, have hurt feelings and joke.\nGuess that enough, could say more.\nI like what Taimur say, yet it seems more from what is written than a personal relationship. I thought the question ask for my opinion not that of what is written, Sorry, if I answered wrong. I just went from experience and not Bible or any other book.
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yes but my views have changed. The bible is an amazing story that offers insights into the spiritual development of man. I'm not a christian but i believe there are many great lessons to be learned from this book. The biggest hoaxes of all time is 1)God is a man in the sky that favors christians and sends you to hell if you don't get your weekly quota of church in.2) Jesus was a whiteman who was the son of god. 3) you need to go to church and pray to worship god. \nGod is individual and god is everything. The good and the bad make god just as the teacher and the taught make up the teaching.
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i am trying to get meaning out of this its certainly informative and perhaps correct that Hitler took a scientific theory and twisted its purposes for his own use..... that is done everyday by groups of people around the world. Doesn't the KKK use the bible to justify their absurd beliefs? Haven't violent horrible atrocities taken place in the name of a god or over christianity vs islam?\nIf your point is that people take ideas and twist them to serve their own purposes then i would say you are correct but if your point is that Darwin was the devil because an evil lunatic twisted his work to be used to justify his evil then i think you would have to say the same about the author of the bible? wouldn't you?
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The christian god those people describe is a psychopathic nutcase with pretty much every mental disorder you can name. And probably a few that haven't been named yet.\n\nFortunately, there is no god. Knowing that, I accept birth life and death as simple physical realities.
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The devil is trying so hard to make sure that people reject God and his ultimate story / love letter to us.  Atheism, whether folks want to admit it or not, is a religion as well.  I love your binary code there!
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If you buy into Judeo-Christian mythology, God is the author of free will.  Satan is not a creator, but a perverter, and thus could not give to Adam and Eve an inherent quality that they did not already possess.
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Well according to the Bible, the devil was an Angel who was caste out of Heaven by God - so this being the case the Devil can not be equal to God as God created him.
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A better question: Since Satan is so smart, would he REALLY make it so that "his work" can be picked out so easily? Satan could be GOD for all humans know; don't you think that would be the more ingenious move?
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The Devil is a convenient invention of semitic religions to put the blame onto. If people do anything wrong they can blame the devil.\n\nThe muslims go around blaming the devil and calling anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint a devil - therefore the devil is just a human invention. The muslims also go around chucking stones at stone-pillar in the middle of the desert thinking it represents the devil. Well if the devil has been turned into a stone pillar then it is no longer a devil - what power can a stone pillar have?\n\nIf you believe there is an all powerful God then it is only logical there can't be another equally powerful entity otherwise God has not power really. If you only have a wishy washy belief in God then you go around making some invention as an excuse for not oobeying Gods commands - like the Jews, Christians and Muslims.\n\nIf the story of the biblical creation is to be believed then we can see that the devil is merely an invention since Eve must have wanted to eat the forbidden fruit but then conveniently blamed the serpent - this has been the general trend in Judaism, Christianity and Islam all through the ages.
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nice quote from our pal trent reznor. good news though. it already is considered mythology by intellectual circles. go to any of your good universities and you will find classes- Christian Mythology 101!
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You can, this a false dicotomy that is wreaking havok on our nation and it's views of religion and science.  there is nothing to suggest that God did not use the laws of physics that he created and science later discovered to creat the universe and world we live in now.  This means God used the Big bang to make the universe, and used evolution (through devine intervention) to make life on earth, even humanity.\n    The creation story put forth in Genesis is not meant to be taken literally and anyone who does so is ignorant, and does the cause of Christianity more harm than good.  It seems likely that this story of creation is a myth ment to teach the primitive Hebrews who first recieved it, the proper relationship between Man and his God.  Remember, these people knew nothing of science so a creation story going on about expanding space-time and gene flow would mean nothing to them.\n   In fact, while science is a wonderful example of God's power and glory, the creation story is really one of the most insignificant things in the bible.  What is important is the message of love conveyed by Jesus, to 'Love your fellow human as yourself."  As long as you do this and devolop your personal relationship with God, you are doing God's will.  That is what Christianiy is about, not makeing people believe the world was created in 7 days.