so yes babies are atheists because they are without a belief in a deity.
That logic doesn't add up, because Atheism IS a belief that God does not exist, AND involves the belief of the Evolution theory. There are more categories than Atheist to to properly label groups who don't actively believe in a God. For example, an Agnostic doesn't believe in "God" but believes in the possibility of a supreme being.
Babies, the mentally handicapped, basically those who do not have the capability of understanding their existence or making complicated choices would be in the category of "those without any stance." I think that makes a lot more sense.
When it comes to the existence of a God, science and Religion are both theories that have been yet to be proven.
You can't prove a negative, so we will only find evidence for the existence of a god. If non exists there will be no evidence to find. So such a being either does or does not exist, that isn't opinion that's fact.
I see what you're saying, but until you can prove/disprove the existence of a God it will merely be a theory, a conclusion based on partial information... an opinion.
When it comes to the existence of a God, science and Religion are both theories that have been yet to be proven.
Umm no, neither of those are theories. I'm not sure if religion is as well but science is a branch of philosophy.
Sorry, I meant that the existence or lack there of God is a theory that has yet to be proven. existence=religion non-existence=science
Sure it's possible, but when was it necessary? This hand evolution could have gotten would have amounted to someone opening an automatic door for another person.
It very well could have been necessary, and until we can prove that it truly isn't, we won't know.
The big bang theory has no explanation on how or why all matter needed to make a potentially livable planet happened to come into contact with each other in the correct time frame. It doesn't seem like this is something that commonly happens in our part of the galaxy, or the ones surrounding us, so if there's no explanation then it would be strange to not keep an open mind about that.
A saying I've heard more than once is
"if you were to apply the big bang theory to an encyclopedia, which is much less complicated than the earth, it would be like taking all of the materials to make that book, throwing them in the air and when it landed the materials collided into a bounded book, the ink evolving into writing and eventually becoming the encyclopedia as we know it."
I think this is a good point, that someone had to begin somewhere with the materials to even make a book, and they had to develop a written language before that. BUT I don't think someone created the earth in 7 days, or that man was molded like play-dough and magically came to life...
Oh, and I think a good analogy for the belief that a God isn't necessary would be the example of plant-life... Man has the ability to put a seed into fertilized ground and grow a plant, but there's plenty of plants that will grow and flourish whether man plants seeds or not.
PS- Darwin was Christian until the day he died.
Yep, so?
SO it's quite possible for Evolution, Christianity and intellect to exist together!
