by Gill 12 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I don't understood why it's considered so much more logical to believe that god, which is arguably the most complex thing in existence, always existed but it's totally unacceptable to believe that physical matter always existed. The fact is
It's the same 'no begining' paradox, your just adding one more step by putting god in there.
I don't understood why it's considered so much more logical to believe that god, which is arguably the most complex thing in existence, always existed but it's totally unacceptable to believe that physical matter always existed.
The philosophical problem with this argument is that time is not a constant but originated with matter as both comprise spacetime together (as Hawking would say, the question "What happened before the Big Bang" is like asking what is south of the south pole). The theist would say that God is "eternal" and thus lies outside of spacetime, which would be his creation. The real question is whether the concept of "eternity" has any cosmological validity and whether the origin of spacetime requires an external rather than internal cause.
Taze Russell said in the Studies from the Scriptures that there was one explanation that did not conflict with science or the Bible.
Jehovah used Darwinian evolution from a first protoplasm to bring about the vast array of fossils and other existing life forms, but that man was then created directly to have dominion over the other creatures on the earth.
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