Anyway, I just dropped by to say how much i find it really amazing to be reading anecdotes from (in your case) 6 years ago. I was just about 12 when you statrted blogging,(or prolly not, I saw an entry about the moving to wordpress thingy). Point is, I was far behind from where I am today and the mindset and experiences that Ive acquired through the years, I dont know.. maybe I was still playing Jack stone or something by the time. Yet in those fragile years, God had prepared the pathway for me to walk in, the people, the schooling, and what do you know, the reading materials.. To state it bluntly, your blog isnt much of a difference from the other blogs tht Ive encountered.. Some were more interesting,actually. But I dont know..there’s something about your blog, that convinces me It’s not by chance that I came across it. God bless you )

It will come to the point where faith will be the single and only factor that keeps Christianity and all religions alike afloat and sustained. Personally I really don’t buy into this idea of faith because believing in something so abstract in this sense goes against logic and seems as if it really is a long shot for this omnipotent, all knowing, and almighty higher being to exist. I think the one piece of evidence that is the poison to each and every religion is the existence of so many practicing religions that claim to have the one true God and the one true faith. Looking back in history, most of the most deadliest and devastating wars were on the basis of faith and religion. In regards to the argument of “well what do you have to lose?”, I find to be a very weak argument to believe in God, because to dedicate yourself and to believe whole-heartedly in something solely on the basis of faith, even when it defies and neglects every aspect of the human mind on the grounds of logic, is not only incomprehensible, it simply is putting human evolution in the wrong direction.

Although Science may be a long way from establishing a complete and sound theory as to the existence of humans and the creation of the universe, at least I can honestly say that I would rather be not sure of how everything came to be, rather then bent on the belief and commit my life to this belief of this higher being we call God, who will judge and direct you to either Heaven or Hell when you die. As I don’t mean to judge those who are faithful to teachings of Christianity or any other religion, I respectfully disagree with the assumption that Science and Religion are on the same wavelength. Although contemporary Christians nowadays will try to embrace different interpretations of the Bible to support newer scientific evidence that may discredit the Bible, most religions in the world have taken a very conservative and traditional approach when it comes to their faith and this is naturally contradicting of Science.

Looking at the stars, I too can’t help but sense that bigger picture. Part of the Bible came to my mind as I was reading your post … Psalm 19 where it says:

The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.

Good job.

Neil W

The bible says light earth and water came before plants, animals, and humans in that order. Science to most says this exact same process in the same order of the bible. The bible and evolution follow together here tho if you dissagree point it out. The fact of human creation is interesting. If you believe god set the laws and motions of this universe into place then he would have known humans would result and thus there is your creation story. Is this right? I dont know but it is a possibility and would help bring science and the bible closer together.

“Never in the fields of science or history have so many facts owed so much to so few – and to an author’s vivid imagination.

Richard Dawkins is an interesting character. It’s extremely hard to understand how his (by his own convoluted admission) essentially meaningless belief system can generate such a tremendous amount of personal purpose and meaning, devoted entirely to convincing every single last one of us that essentially there is no purpose or meaning. Or at least not in their traditional, readily comprehensible forms – meaningless meaning will surely remain an elusive notion to most of us…”

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