Mary Jo, I have to say, you seem more spiritual than most people I would call 'Bible Thumpers', yet the way you have portrayed yourself and eloquently stated your beliefs has been a breath of fresh air. We may not see eye to eye on whether or not God exists, but I sure do like the way you present your 'side', specifically at how you have kept your cool in the face of some of the questions being asked.
If only more of our discussions on this list were this civil and enlightening. On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[email protected]> wrote: > >>I mean no offence by this, but I'm curious. How does evolving from a >>primordial ooze seem improbable yet a God creating it all, even including a >>plan for evolution, seem somehow more probable? > > Well, I don't personally consider either more or less improbable than the > other, given no other factors. I do find the complexity of our universe > inexplicable, but it's certainly not the sole basis for my own personal > faith. Certainly there are attempts to measure the extremely high statistical > unlikelihood of life as it is evolving randomly, given the known age of the > universe, and then people will get into arguments about whether it's more > logical to believe in something that has a trillion-to-1 chance of occurring > (or whatever they come up with, which of course is always biased by their > particular world-view) or whether there is some other explanation for it, i.e > a supernatural force at work whatever that may be. For some it simply makes > more logic for there to be something else than that trillion-to-one series of > events happening. I would see either position as a leap of faith....faith in > a supernatural force, or faith that science is able to tell us everything > there is to know. > > I do think most people, whether they are religious or not, really don't quite > comprehend how amazing and unlikely our existence really is. Evolution of > complex species is FAR from the only highly improbable factor that plays a > part in our being here. That just is the one that people most commonly see > the inherent problems in fully explaining. > > > --- Mary Jo > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:306610 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
