Re: Here I am again
Ciaran, on host 81.154.176.193
Tuesday, August 30, 2005, at 08:59:57
Re: Here I am again posted by Ferrick on Monday, August 29, 2005, at 19:38:36:
I'm also a Christian, but I want to play devil's advocate for a bit here and respond to one of the things you said:
> And, does it make more sense that we occured on accident or on purpose? For me, the answer is obvious. For you, it is different.
It's not quite as obvious as it sounds to some, especially when you take into account the myriad number of planets and conditions throughout the universe. Even more so if you believe in multiple universes.
The argument goes like this: we're advanced enough to ask ourselves the question above, whether by accident or design. We can do that because, in the view of evolution, the conditions for evolution have been just right. If they were any other conditions, we'd have turned out vastly different and may not even have lived this far.
Therefore, even if we were created by accident, we wouldn't know because we would probably not live to be able to think that under any other conditions. Thus, the likelihood of whether we were created by accident is of no consequence.
That's how I understand the argument, anyway. I should repeat again, though, that I'm a Christian. I do believe that God created us, along with the rest of the Bible. I believe this because I've seen and known too much about how the world works and how different things happen to believe otherwise.
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