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Common ground in science/Bible debate
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Sat, 7 Apr 2001 07:44:39 GMT
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Greetings! I've been following the debate regarding science and the Bible
and it seems the debate has digressed so I thought I'd start a thread about
the things I think we should agree on. Feel free to join in but please keep
an open mind and use kind words.
We should agree that Christianity is one of thousands of religions practiced
by the billions that inhabit this planet. There are even faiths still
practiced today that have been around before Moses. There are other faiths,
like those of the ancient Greeks, that are no longer practiced.
Each religion has it's laws, beliefs and stories. Some have written works
while others are handed down orally. Each religion has it's own story of
creation. The stories in the Bible are just as relevant to Christians as
were the Greek's stories of the gods of Olympus, which we now call myths.
Science reveals the FACTS of our existence while religion helps reveal the
MEANING of our existence.
The theory of evolution is a conclusive scientific explanation for fossil
and living evidence of plant and animal adaptation over time. Creation
stories are non-scientific and involve a supernatural being(s) or force that
willfully builds the world and the life to inhabit it.
I think that these are the main points we can agree on, if you have others,
please add.
Dan
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Message has 4 Replies:
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| (...) You keep talking like that and Zeus is gonna come down here and make us all sorry! (...) And pizza helps relieve the HUNGER in our existence. (...) Here's an interesting thought, if God were really a God, as in if he had total and absolute (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Common ground in science/Bible debate
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| (...) I would disagree with this. There are basically a handfull of major world religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam - and some of these are sometimes considered more philosophies than religions). (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Common ground in science/Bible debate
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| Here's an interesting quote from Albert Einstein regarding his thoughts on God, life and death: "I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I, nor would I (...) (24 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Common ground in science/Bible debate
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| ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Jassim" <danieljassim@hotmail.com> To: <lugnet.off-topic.de...ugnet.com> Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 3:44 AM Subject: Common ground in science/Bible debate (...) about (...) keep (...) practiced (...) (...) (24 years ago, 10-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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