The God Question...Is there a higher power? Yes? No? Not Sure?
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Personally, I find myself to be most easily categorized as
Agnostic.
I feel this way due to
3 obstacles facing Christianity and applicable religions.
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The 'word of God' comes from sinful MEN among many other religious texts with the same claim.2.
Sinless souls are born into a sinful world.3.
There is an inability to simply will true belief, something non-physical, into oneself.==========================================================================================
Dr. Gerald Schroeder poses some interesting scientific explanations as proof of God in his
Beyond Intelligent Design. Dr. Gerald starts with the big questions such as "
Why is there existence in the first place?" and works his way towards specifics such as "
Why was life already purpose driven when it came into being?" Watch his
31 minute video here.
or read the Transcription HereVideo Highlights:"
We are not sure who discovered water, but we are pretty sure it was not the fish.
When you live in an environment that is totally around you, you just take it for granted."
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The oldest rocks that can bear fossils already have fossils of fully formed single celled life.
Nature invents photosynthesis in a snap, and starts oxygenating the atmosphere."
"And on this earth which is so lovingly tuned for life as Scientific American points out, rocks and water, a few simple molecules, perhaps some clay, methane, ammonia, nitrogen, water and rocks become alive. Of course those rocks and water were not always rocks and water. Before that, before the earth and the solar system formed, they were stardust, of previously exploded stars. And before this, they were hydrogen and helium which is produced in the big bang, and before this they were beams of energy. So everything you see around you is condensed energy. You are made of light beams.
The fact that there is one physical creation and science is unequivocal about this, there was one physical creation, the stuff that makes up your body, and the world around you, the chair you are sitting on, the floor on which the chair rests, has been in the universe since the creation. You witnessed the creation of the universe. You were present at the creation. Not in your bodily form, but in the form of light beams, that eventually became alive, learned to send people to the moon, learned to create a violin concerto that can so beautiful, can move a person to tears, all from condensed light beams. It is quite a stretch of the imagination, that this merely happened by itself. But that is the understanding from a materialist reductionist point of view. Light beams became alive and somehow, not only did they become alive, but they became cognizant of being alive. Cognizant of awareness, of joy, light beams can laugh and feel joy. Light beams can sing, light beams can love. But that is what happened, because the only thing that is a substrate of this universe is light beams. And that is what we are made of."
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