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well...theres kinda a 2 part answer to why i believe in God. the first part is why i believe in a god...or some higher being. the answer is pretty much intellectual. as far as i am aware, the belief that there is no God is fairly modern...and as far as i know, related to technological jumps. that is fairly ironic seeing as how we whitness the "complex" machines and technology we create, but as we know from science...life, and the human body are MUCH more intricate, and yet we say that there was no more intelligent and powerful being that created us. what we will argue is that through a series of VERY unprobably and yet coincidental chain of events, nothing was compressed so dense taht it exploded and somewhere along the line...there was a rock, with some bacteria, that created a cosmic soup and, again by chance, the right circumstances occured and we evolved from this cosmic soup. intellectually thats a lot more complex to swallow...especially looking at the great void of evidence that they base this "fact" off of. like i was told once. if we walked into a forrest and saw a car...we wouldnt say "wow...evolution did a great job there". we would assume that it had a creator. but then we look at life...and we shove it off as chance. it seems foolish to me. another reason is the arguement of right and wrong. if you have read any of CS Lewis "Mere Christianity", then youre familiar with this. if not,then you might wanna check it out. its a much better intellectual defense of God and christianity than i can offer. but essentially the arguement is found at the beginning of the book and is this...despite how much it is supressed, and despite how much we want to embrace the relative stance that "truth for you might not be truth for me", people have a fundamental knowledge that there is a right code of conduct, and a wrong code of conduct...namely a conscience. and a proof of this would be found in everyday life. if someone takes something that is yours, you say that it isnt right. if someone hits you, you say its not right. but if there was no fundamental truth...then you couldnt say that because what is not right for your conduct, might very well be right for another persons. so there is no such thing as justice.
well...theres kinda a 2 part answer to why i believe in God. the first part is why i believe in a god...or some higher being. the answer is pretty much intellectual. as far as i am aware, the belief that there is no God is fairly modern...and as far as i know, related to technological jumps. that is fairly ironic seeing as how we whitness the "complex" machines and technology we create, but as we know from science...life, and the human body are MUCH more intricate, and yet we say that there was no more intelligent and powerful being that created us. what we will argue is that through a series of VERY unprobably and yet coincidental chain of events, nothing was compressed so dense taht it exploded and somewhere along the line...there was a rock, with some bacteria, that created a cosmic soup and, again by chance, the right circumstances occured and we evolved from this cosmic soup. intellectually thats a lot more complex to swallow...especially looking at the great void of evidence that they base this "fact" off of. like i was told once. if we walked into a forrest and saw a car...we wouldnt say "wow...evolution did a great job there". we would assume that it had a creator. but then we look at life...and we shove it off as chance. it seems foolish to me. another reason is the arguement of right and wrong. if you have read any of CS Lewis "Mere Christianity", then youre familiar with this. if not,then you might wanna check it out. its a much better intellectual defense of God and christianity than i can offer. but essentially the arguement is found at the beginning of the book and is this...despite how much it is supressed, and despite how much we want to embrace the relative stance that "truth for you might not be truth for me", people have a fundamental knowledge that there is a right code of conduct, and a wrong code of conduct...namely a conscience. and a proof of this would be found in everyday life. if someone takes something that is yours, you say that it isnt right. if someone hits you, you say its not right. but if there was no fundamental truth...then you couldnt say that because what is not right for your conduct, might very well be right for another persons. so there is no such thing as justice.
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