"Danwood" <noreply@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> rockymt wrote:
>>
>> I can understand that many of you who frequent these newsgroups expect
>> scientific proof/evidence and no less.
>
> I deliberately removed alt atheism from the this thread. I have learned
> from experience it's virtually impossible to communicate. They demand
> physical proof of the existence of a non-physical being - the creator.
> Personally, I see evidence of the "hand" of the creator in the design
> we see all around us. From the universe, to life itself and especially
the
> reproduction process. But for most, atheist _cannot_ see design.
> But ironically some apparently do.
> Richard Dawkins, for example referred to design as "apparent" design.
> As a corollary, I see a beaver dam as evidence of of a dam builder, even
> though I've never seen a beaver. Similarly, I see design as evidence of
a
> designer although I never seen the designer. I reject the notion of
> "apparent" design. Design is real, and I see design as evidence of a
> designer.
> I find it curious that unbelievers demand scientific proof of the deity,
> yet science is _not_ in the business of proof. I quote Stephen Hawking,
> Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only
a
> hypothesis" you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results
> of experments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the
next
> time the result will not contridict the theory. On the other hand you
can
> disprove a theory by finding even a single observation that disagrees
with
> the predictions of the theory.. If ever a new observation
> is found to disagree, we have to abandon or modify the theory. At least
> that is what is supposed to happen, but you can always question the
> competence of the person who carried out the observation.
>
I love the way you put things Dana, but you forget one thing: Christ
did
not come for us, he came for the lost sheep, ..and who could be more lost
than an atheist? Had Christ and later Paul etc. not addressed unbelievers,
running the risk of being killed by doing so, there would be no
Christianity
today.
Are you willing to be hated by the world, or would you rather curry
its
favour? It's up to you, but preaching to the choir, no matter how good,
will
not endear you to Jesus' heart.
I'm going to put a.a. back on top if you don't mind, and pray you will
suffer the slings and arrows of outraged atheists gracefully and with
humour.
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