My perspective on Zaresuje's questions (written according to the beliefs of:
nova2772
Which are officially Christian)
What is time?
I saw a documentary where a lot of prominent scientists were asked this question. Most answers were along the lines of "nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once". I kid you not. I think it's the way events are organized in the natural world, but hey, I'm no prominent scientist.
If there is a god, what created him and how?
In the supernatural world, time does not exist. He would have existed "before" the natural world- and therefore time. Everything is "now" where God dwells. I can't really wrap my mind around a world without time, but the point is that God would have always existed. Nothing made him. We think everything has to be made just because everything around us was.
Who wrote the Bible? (proof?)
About sixty guys, I think. Among them were Moses, David, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Paul. A bunch of others, but I don't have it memorized. According to most Christians, the Bible was written by God through these men. They refer to such texts as "divinely inspired.
Are questions just as important as answers?
Both are important. The right questions can lead to more than just one answer.
If everything was just created, what was it created from?
Nothing? I guess? Nobody seems to have problems with "something from nothing" these days. And by nothing I mean no raw materials. not the absence of a Creator.
How could matter appear out of nothing?
I dunno... what else would it come from?
How did humans evolve to have consciousness?
Not my strong point. I'll read some useful books and tackle this one later.
If you would go to hell... how would you feel eternal pain if you left your body and brain with your nerves behind?
I suppose if we can feel pleasure without physical touch, we can feel suffering as well. I can't tell you for sure. I've never been there.
How powerful is the human mind?
It's the most powerful tool at our disposal. It's better than a toolbox and a gun and a house and a stethoscope and the internet, because all those things were made by the use of the human mind. However, it runs into trouble with problems that can't be solved by examining and modifying its surroundings.
Relative to nature, extremely; relative to God, not so magnificent.
How old is the universe
I dunno. Older than me.
Why do I look at things from the perspective of a nonhuman being?
Interesting. Maybe you can't empathize with other humans, so you try to empathize with other things. Maybe.
Why do some Christians shut off their minds to science?
Because they don't understand it. They are expected to be experts on two fields, double that of the atheist. Consequently atheists know their arguments better. Consequently the Christians lose. Consequently they abandon science, seeing it as an atheist weapon. They don't want to defend their faith all the time, so they disregard the arguments against them. That doesn't help their position. At leas, that's what i think might be the case.
Why is science considered a religion?
It isn't. Some people think "science" and "evolution" and "atheism" are all the same- or, if not the same, they link them so that they often go together. Some Creationists have taken to calling Evolution a religion because they say it requires faith. Science is not a religion, but the tool we use to make sense of nature. Evolution is no more a religion than Creationism. Of the three, atheism is the only one you might call a religion, though I think of it as a belief statement- "There is no god."
Once again, this post has been from a Christian standpoint and assumes the existence of God.
