Village Idiot:
I am not an athiest bu I certainly do not believe in the bible or any man concocted god, this is simply because I do not believe in magical beings or miracles. Based on the fact that geological erosion can be accurately measured by anyone with a micrometer who lets a garden hose run over a sand stone rock for 10 years, I don't need an evolutionist to tell me the Earth has been around far longer than 6000 years and I highly doubt every animal species has it's own diety defending it. Rather I would say science satisfies 99% of my questions but that missing 1% is enough to convince me that science has not quite yet found the answer that explains my nagging questions.
What are those questions? Well, here's one:
According to evolution birds are the defendants of reptiles. Driven by the need to escape predators on the ground the adapted to the air by developing wings. How does a lizard decide it's time to grow wings? Did one fall off a cliff one day and magically sprout wings? Science would clearly say no. So how many lizards tried to fly off cliffs before their subsequent generations began to show signs of wings? Surely every lizard that tried to fly failed or died trying? How did they pass on the adaptive gene process? And the ones that didnt die, how many times in their life span did they jump off "flyable" heights that genetic memory was passed on to the following generations who followed suit with the same dead end results?
believing this is the case is as bad as believing Moses parted the sea or any of the other biblical fairy tales. Any Paleontologist will admit that there are massive gaps in the fossil record which scientists have filled in with theory. What is theory? Speculation based on scientific hypothesis. It is not a fact!
I do nelieve animals adapt to circumstances and their environment like humans used to before they developed the intellectual capacity to change their environment. And I do believe in genetic memory. But until their is solid proof and a complete fossil record that can convince me otherwise, I simply cannot believe that there is a common origin of species. It always amazes me when devout evolutionists use the word "design" in their teachimg. Nature cannot design, design requires some intellectual capacity plain and simple. Decide - is it design or evolution, it cant be both!
The way an evolutionist would explain away things is no different than the way a religious person would, both place equal weight in a belief, just as I do when I look at life and am convinced that it was designed by some extraordinary capacity with an intelllect beyond our wildest imaginings. Whatever this entity is, it or they chose to furnish me with a biological mechanism which provides a sentient conscience and I believe it was for a reason. Clearly this creator meant for me to feel, communicate and have the ability to make a difference above above all other creatures on this planet.
It's because of this I belive this creator is omnipresent and attentive, why else would I be designed this way? And because I believe this creator is omnipresent I believe "it" is interested in our lives and our development as intellectual beings and for that I love this being. And for the abilty I have to trully appreciate all the beautiful and incredible things I see and experience in my life. And the fact that I will deteriorate like all matter and pass away to become matter is fine with me because I feel incredibly priveleged to have had the experience of life on this magnificent planet. Its why I'm comfortable with the finality of death and have no delusions of an after life.
But! To me this creator is interested in us and if it is ingenious enough to have designed this life, surely it must hold some degree of influence in its experiment and therefore in my gratitude I pray to it and refer to it as God for lack of a better term. And yes, I pray to it - not in the conventional way - and my prayers are almost always answered. How they are I do not believe is through any "Holy Spirit", but rather through introspect.
My point is: discounting peoples beliefs is to wag a finger at the holes anyone could fimd in your own beliefs. Rather than trying to point out the fragments by ridiculing others, why not simply discuss and offer your views with the intellect you have been afforded and thereby construct a common conduit of ideas and increase the pool of idea and afford each other the chance of higher intellectual capacity? After all, wouldnt that constitute a higher evolution of understanding?
