re: #20 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I am continually amazed by people who believe in an all powerful diety who apparently was incapable of making his creation develop slowly over billions of years using mechanisms such as evolution, quantum physics, organic chemisty and literally thousands of other readily observed miracles of nature we can observe daily.

This discovery can do one of two things. It can build upon the knowledge of the Universe that is to be held in nothing less than an awe that takes your breath away and adds to the evidence of an all powerful and perfect creator, or it can make you say, “See, there is no God.”

I am not sure how anyone comes to the latter conclusion based on this evidence and I hope no one will. But as to your observation PtbK, I am confounded too. I am reading the Parables of Matthew to my classes this week and one thing is very certain, the God-man Jesus Christ used stories that did not actually ever happen in order to convey an eternal truth. He was not lying, and the Book of Genesis is not lying either. It is telling the reader that all of creation has a source, a beginning. We call that God. Now go and try to figure it all out! In comes the sacred art of scientific discovery.