The Origins Debate, an article by Daniel Friedmann
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Re: The Origins Debate, an article by Daniel Friedmann
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The most beautiful, most complex and faultless piece of creation on earth, man, did not have scientific stamp of approval before it became reality. Or is science also denying the reality of human body, the very makeup of scientists?
Science, religion, and philosophy are just alternative routes of investigating the material universe. Or the matter world. But certain things go beyond the scope of these branches of study: the first Cause, or the first principle. To understand creation, you have to go outside creation. And that is to be in spirit. Spirituality has the answers to any age old question or debate but man is too dogmatic and therefore places limitation on his being.
Let me also restate the age old advice: "Man know thyself".
Singing, or reciting, or chanting, the word HU, which is the vibratory sound of the universe and everything in it is a sure way to go outside creation and view it with detachment.
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"The scientific community’s reaction to intelligent design makes it clear that progress in the debate requires creationism to be backed up by an approach that is testable and thus acceptable as “scientific.” This approach must therefore include explanations and predictions of aspects of the natural world that can be repeatedly tested and verified, in accordance with the scientific method."
Shouldn't the scientific community go as far back as the dead sea scrolls, if not the bible, to discover biblical history.
I became a believer in God and the existence of Jesus when I decided to read the old testament and the new testament. There were many predictions of his arrival, his presence on earth, and his impact on history.
Unless scientists are willing to delve into the pages of that history, they will continue to believe that there is a formula that is mixed in a test tube or glass to discover who is the creator and who created the creator.
There are people with incurable diseases who have testified of being healed or have been delivered from a perilous situation and confess that there must have been a higher being who rescued them. Who or what is that higher being? Maybe they can begin to record these (global) occurences and find answers, instead of doubting everything without first exploring it. Thanks for provoking conversation with this article Mr Friedmann. This reply was meant to be short.
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Let me start with something a Lutheran priest once told me. “You can’t reduce God to black words on a white page.” Any attempts we humans make in trying to describe or understand God or what He does or how He does it will always fail.
Enter the very first verses in the Bible, Genesis 1:1-2: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.” [NIV]
This indicates to me that there was this planet out there floating through space for who knows how long and it was covered with water. It could have been billions of years for all we know. Why not? And where there is water there is life – yes? So, there must have been some kind of life forms there. Do you see my point?
Now I will just be clear: The God I believe in is by all means powerful enough to have created the earth in seven of our literal days. Still, it takes nine months for a human to form and years for a tall tree to evolve and we do see ongoing signs of evolution all of the time. In addition, the Bible says that:
Psalm 90:4 “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” [NIV]
2 Peter 3:8 “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” [NIV]
There is reason to believe that God (in fact, the universe) does not exist in time. A number of sound arguments have been made and books written that would seem to support this. For example, Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli. According to this theory, time is an artificial reality in our world. It does not apply to God. So, I simply do not care how long it took to create the earth or how old the earth is. These discussions are all very interesting and being the curious creatures that we are we can’t help wondering. Still, I tend to think that if we get too caught up in endless discussions regarding this it might tend to detract our focus from what God really is all about.
At the end of the day all that matters to me is my own personal relationship with God. Trying to maintain that relationship while also trying to not be too bad of an example to others is a full-time job for me. Besides, it would seem that this dichotomy can never be fully resolved. You think?
Maybe someday I will tell you what I really think .
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We are all human no one can truly explain how
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These evidences show us that human and all other living things evolved from a simplest form of life.
For example at a point and thousands of million years ago modern man evolved from ape (ancient man) to modern man..what triggered this effect was that according to one of the theories proposed by Charles darwin ''when a part of the body is disused for a very long time it will degenerate...as the tail seen in ape and can't be seen in human..the tail was disused and hence it degenerated in human.
In religion all these are not true..God created the earth and all living things in it.
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Thanks for this interesting article!
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