"If I Hadn't Found Jesus..." From the Onion

matabele wrote:

So let me get this straight, people think that this is all a big accident. Slugs crawl out of the ocean, develop into 5 human beings that belt out It's evolution baby with pieces of wood and some steel strings, some accident.

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No. Life is a process. A process that has occurred does occur and will occur in those places in the Universe where the conditions are right for life to exist.
In our current state... on this planet, at this distance from a sun, that is in this period of its life, at this time... life exists. Earth wasn't alway hospitable for life to exist... and in the distant future, the Earth will no long be able to sustain life.
And maybe a slug crawled from the waters of another planet, circling at the right distance around another star in another galaxy and evolved to higher life forms... that all went extinct 600 million years ago when its sun died. Maybe, the ingredients for life exists all over the Universe, but the conditions need to be correct in order for the process to take place.
The only thing we really know is... We don't know. Whether we look in science books or Holy Texts... we don't know.

haffajappa wrote:

matabele wrote:

So let me get this straight, people think that this is all a big accident. Slugs crawl out of the ocean, develop into 5 human beings that belt out It's evolution baby with pieces of wood and some steel strings, some accident.

I think people who are open to the big bang theory and of evolution (the latter which is a concept i think a lot of people misunderstand) are open to sweeping it under the rug if a new and better theory arises... which is the beauty of science!

Meanwhile, some people will never stop believing a big giant man in the sky made the universe and put dinosaurs in the ground as a joke and gave the authority to a church to tell everyone the sun wasn't the center of the universe...... oh yes, much more believable i think.

I think the only thing we can truthfully say is, we don't have a clue! I have this nagging feeling that we are looking at things from this angle when we should be looking at them from 180 degrees the other way.

arq wrote:

Ok then, how we should look then? could you tell me an unbiased method?

I don't think we should be looking for the answer, we will never find it, it is kinda like asking a surgeon to remove the organ where hate, love, anxiety and conscience live.

arq wrote:

matabele wrote:

arq wrote:

Ok then, how we should look then? could you tell me an unbiased method?

I don't think we should be looking for the answer, we will never find it, it is kinda like asking a surgeon to remove the organ where hate, love, anxiety and conscience live.

Exactly! there's no answer :thumbup:

Why are people so discontent with the unknown?
Nothing has been proven absolutely... I lean towards the scientific theory of course but there's always room for new and greater theories should they arise.

None of us can say for sure!

arq wrote:

haffajappa wrote:

...there's always room for new and greater theories should they arise...

Isn't that exciting?

Personally I think the world was created by giant lime green giraffes
...just waiting for that theory to be validated...

I'm not trying to be funny but when I feel love, sadness, apprehension and such things it feels like they come from an area near the heart, deep in the chest.