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Left's Newest Inquisition: Deny Your God or Be Declared Unfit

RockinRickOwen Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 12:21 PM
I disagree about the big bang bit. There's plenty of evidence lying around the universe, but it's only when it's interpreted according to the assumption that the universe was an accident that a "big bang" beginning is plausible. It would seem a sloppy thing for God, who seems quite fond of creative order, to have brought about everything in such a way. We are dealing with two conflicting myths here, and either one or the other or neither is true, but not both. BTW, nice screen-name. Aristotle, Paul, Thomas Aquinas and Mortimer Adler would strongly approve.
Faithandreason Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 2:48 PM
RockinRickOwen: I really encourage you to read and investigate the evidence and implications of the Big Bang. Perhaps the term is misleading but the evidence and physics reveal amazing precision; for hundreds of physical factors. The probability that all those factors were balanced so precisely to allow the Universe to exist by accident is incredibly low. We can choose to believe that "just happened" or we can choose to believe there is intelligence outside of time and space who caused it.
Faithandreason Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 2:48 PM
RockinRickOwen: I really encourage you to read and investigate the evidence and implications of the Big Bang. Perhaps the term is misleading but the evidence and physics reveal amazing precision; for hundreds of physical factors. The probability that all those factors were balanced so precisely to allow the Universe to exist by accident is incredibly low. We can choose to believe that "just happened" or we can choose to believe there is intelligence outside of time and space who caused it.
Anominus Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 12:52 PM
And yet, the more we observe it, we find more order and less chaos. The supposedly "random occurrances" we are able to observe are, in all likelihood, parts of a system too large for us to perceive.
wmou Wrote: Nov 26, 2012 12:40 PM
The beauty of the Universe is its organized chaos. As we gain knowlege, the smallest thing in the universe gets smaller, that largest thing seems to expand for ever.

Let the Blood Games continue.

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