I've never understood the sense in how it is politically or socially viable to entertain the delusions of a group of people who really *are* stuck in a time-warp. The Creationist viewpoint is full of hoary old nostrums that Thomas Lyell and Charles Darwin debunked 150 years ago. The Creationist worldview is as follows: 6,000 years ago God created
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Reality: The Sun existed before the Earth did, the Moon after it.
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Aa: If so, then where did God come from? Does God have a navel?
The problem being that proving God doesn't exist is simply impossible
Proving any negative is impossible. What can you prove doesn't exist?
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It is, in principle, possible to prove that God doesn't exist. If God is necessarily omnipotent and omnipotence is necessarily uninstantiable, then necessarily God does not exist. If God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent and such properties are incompatible with the amount of evil there is in the world, then God does not exist. And so on. There is also nothing militating against the possibility of a proof for God's existence. If, for instance, the metaphysical structure of finite being is such that it requires a cause, then positing an infinite Creator may be perfectly legitimate.
Matters of faith simply cannot be argued away.
Depends on the faith. For example, decisive arguments can be given against Mormonism, Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientology, and even Islam.
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"But we have an alternate viable theory of the origin of the universe and life".......the bottom line, however, is "first cause", Intelligent design or Random chance?
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Seriously, if matter just 'was' why not God?
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My point is where did matter come from, or energy, or whatever; is just as nebulous as where did God come from......so ya kinda pays yer money and takes your choice :D
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Personally I can understand, after all if I believe in a god; theoretically I need to live to the standards I perceive he has set.
If I believe in God, and have no power to assert my beliefs over you, there are no greater implications to you.
Granting people have had power to impose upon people in the name of god or God, and if this is what you mean, then I do understand and am not as dense as I think I am at times. However, if this is what you are getting at, the same argument could be used against a non-believer who has power, like Mao or Stalin.
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