EVOLUTION
08/03/24 17:19
There are some who believe that the Bible was made up either by government for control or man for a new type of religion. I say that both are impossible. Here’s why; first my response to the government. The writings of the Bible were in existence before the Bible was canonized: it’s been proven by the finding of ancient documents older than the Bible canonization; and those ancient documents match the text of our Bible. The dating of the text dates back to a time that it was illegal to be a Christian. In other words, government killed people where followed the text that we now call the Bible; therefore, the government could not have made up the text for control because they did not like the text. Now my response to the Bible being written by man to make a new religion; because this to is impossible. Since the government was killing people who professed to follow these writings, it would be completely ridiculous for anyone to write these, and follow these documents. Remember that the persecution of professing Christians started before these documents were written and continued for a time after. So, for people to be willing to be sawed in half, burned, boiled in oil,
The answer to the question of how the universe started is not as much WHAT happened; the ultimate question is what CAUSED it to happen. Ex Nihilo, Nihil Fit - Out of nothing, nothing comes. If I have noting in my hand, what can you get? Nothing. Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began to exist therefore it has a cause. The “big bang” requires that the universe began to exist, and is created, out of nothing. If out of nothing, nothing comes then how can the universe creating from nothing without a cause. “Nothing is what rocks dream about” - Aristotle
The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same… This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always believed the word of the Bible. But we scientists did not expect to find evidence for an abrupt beginning because we have had, until recently, such extraordinary success in tracing the chain of cause and effect backward in time… At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.—Robert Jastrow (former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies)
The details differ, but the essential elements in the astronomical and biblical accounts of Genesis are the same… This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always believed the word of the Bible. But we scientists did not expect to find evidence for an abrupt beginning because we have had, until recently, such extraordinary success in tracing the chain of cause and effect backward in time… At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.—Robert Jastrow (former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies)