I am a christian, i and i strongly belive in my lord jesus christ, and i also belive that if you belive in him and except him as your savior, u will go to heaven. and i also believe that he created the world, not the big bang, or that we came from stupid apes.
Question. How did life on earth exist before 10,000 years? The sun has been burning away for a while. It is much smaller than what it would have been 10,000 In fact, the sun would have been so big that everything on earth would be roasted alive!
Actually, life could have existed before then. The Sun is billions of years old. It started out as a medium-sized star, so it wasn't like Antares-sized or anything. Life could have existed simply because in the face of a few billions of years in burning down, 10,000 years wouldn't have made enough of a difference, because the rate of decline in mass would have to be hundreds of times faster or life not to be viable only 10,000 years ago. Plus, we have time measures from the ancient Greeks. It's been calculated, and ancient Greek civilization goes back about 11,000 years.
You have to base your beliefs on your observations....otherwise they're made up.
Did you observe the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah? Did you observe Jesus' resurrection? Did you observe the Great Flood? No?! Then, by your own words, your beliefs are made up.
The Great Flood, if it happened, would have happened around 3000 B.C. The flood supposedly covered the whole world (impossible, because there is not enough water on the planet in the oceans, rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, ice caps, and in precipitation, clouds, or atmosphere to completely flood[not barely cover, flood] the entire surface of the Earth anyway) so the ancient Far East civilization that existed around hen would have been eradicated. And it wasn't.
The sun looses 4 million tonnes of mass per second as energy. It is 93 million miles away. The Earth could fit into the sun 1 million times over. It surface temperature is 6000'c, at its core it is 15,000,000'c. Ok mainly that is just fun info on our personal star.
but as thisisnotanalt said it is a comparativly small star. Abd to quote Douglas Adams again "space is big". we are pretty far away. 10,000 years is nothing to the sun. I don't see how it could have changed significantly in size in such a short amount of time.
Oh wait...forget the thing about the sun...it's growing, not shrinking. I just did some research and found that my science book from...four years ago is wrong.
Did you observe the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah? Did you observe Jesus' resurrection? Did you observe the Great Flood? No?! Then, by your own words, your beliefs are made up.
By observeing I mean taking in by the senses. If you don't ever hear/observe the story of Sodom and Gomorrah then you can't ever give it credibility or uncredibility.
About Existence being too complicated for Religion. Look at St. Thomas Aquinas's Suma Theologica and you'll realize that at least for Catholics they know its complicated. I agree with you that many Christians have a feel good Religion with less emphasess on logic and reason. If you go at least towards Roman Catholicism you'll realize that reason is an integral part of the religion.
OK So if you're Christian does that mean (And I mean this for very-christian people) you believe the Earth is only 6000 years old? Atheism is right in my head, if you define life then it's something which moves, something that breaths, as we know it, we reproduce and any other things a live "thing" might do, all i'm saying is all you need is an android with it's own conciousness to get life, our bodies are machines, and an androids body is a machine's, if it has a mind of it's own then that very simply makes it Life, not AI! Not to mention but, I can't find any Logic within any religion I know of so far, Science + Logic = Truth It's hard to find though, we're working on it - Try watching a Charles Darwin Documentry - It really looks good and proves alot
If you make that your equation and say that Christianity has no logic, then you are saying it isn't logical to have a law against murder, stealing, lying, etc. Do you think it is right to do those things? If you start putting some logic into your thinking, you will find that these moral values are right.
Before Christianity people didn't kill, murder and steal at will. People don't need Christianity to give them morals. Plus there are many nations where it is morally acceptable to do these things, would they be logically right in thinking they are the right things to do?
